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LAST MONTH'S 
AVERAGE DAILY SALE 

No 63,623 



THE 


Reforms aim 

lor - big cut in 
jail numbers 



sentences for 
serious offences only 

By Quentin Cowdry and Robin Oakley 


A shake-up of sentencing 
policy to make sure hard¬ 
ened criminals spend 
longer in jail, while keep¬ 
ing petty offenders out of 
prison, was announced 
iy by the Home 


. Judges and magistrates 
:will be given statutory 
guidelines to encourage 
them to restrict custody to 
the most serious c riminals 
— such as murderers, sex 
offenders and drug 
traffickers. 

. The strategy also, involves 
the creation of demanding 
new non-custodial sanctions 
aimed at answering-criticism 
from the courts and public 
that alternatives to custody 
are too soft Those would 
include curfew orders, proba¬ 
tion, rigorous community ser¬ 
vice; day centre attendance, 
electronic tagging fines and 
compensation orders. 

Parole rules will be changed 
so that anyone sent to jail will 


INSIDE 


Bucjdng 
the trend 

• Is there no light at th& 
ehd of-the 

4 manufacturers amf/‘_r 
expbrterfe? Cbncfcktfag 
his series on the decline 
of British industry, Tom 
Bower finds hope for the 
future—but sounds a 
final warning: page 26 


spend at least half of their 
sentence in custody — rather 
than a third as at present — 
and when released, they will 
be supervised by probation 
staff 

Other proposals include 
heavier fines for the rich, new 
youth courts to deal with 
defendants under 18 and a 
crackdown on those who wil¬ 
fully refused to control delin- 


Details, reaction 
Parliament, 


Lord Windlesham. 
Leading article_ 


...12 

.14 

.15 



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• “Artists tend to 
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their own sake." Now 
Investors are moving in 
the same direction. Our 
Antiques & Collectables 

feature focuses on 
the growing popularity 

of prints: page 29 


quent children. Parents win be 
forced to attend court and 
magistrates would mbs their 
means into account when 
imposing fines. The maxi¬ 
mum sentences for theft and 
non-domestic bmglary will be 
reduced. 

Mr David Waddington, the 
Home Secretary, described the 
proposals as “the most fun¬ 
damental and far-reaching 
changes for at least half a 
century in the way we punish 
offenders’*. They were aimed 
at cutting crime and based on 
the principle of “just deserts”. 

He also ann ounced a “vic¬ 
tims* charter” spelling out the 
rights ofthose who sufler from 


htur fftw tnOpthr' 

The broad thrust of the 
strategy, contained in a Home 
Officewfaite Paper, received a 
remarkable measure of sup¬ 
port from MPS, legal experts 
and penal reform groups, al¬ 
though there were fears that 
courts would not respond as 
expected and that the jail 
population would increase. 

Acknowledging that prisons 
can act as “academies of 
crime” far early offenders and 
emphasizing- the Govern¬ 
ment’s belief that custody 
should be reserved for the 
most serious offences, Mr 
Waddington sai<L“We can 
only justify spending well over 
£1,000 a month in housing, 
feeding and dothing a crim¬ 
inal; we can only justify 


depriving an offender of the 
Opportunity to maintain his 
family, compensate his victim 
or make reparation to society 
when the offence is so grave, 
that there is no realistic alter¬ 
native to imprisonment.” 

Serious crimes would at¬ 
tract severe p unishmen t and 
that “the right punishment for 
violent crime is a long prison 
sentence”; but many less seri¬ 
ous offenders could be pun¬ 
ished in the community where 
they could repay their victim 
and do “tough and de man ding 
work” for the community. 

For all but die most serious 
offences, courts would have to 
say why they were imposing 
custodial sentences; but when 
prison was required, it was 
important that the sentence 
served should relate more 
closely to that passed. 

Mr Waddington rejected 
calls for a sentencing council 
to end discrepancies in 
sentencing between different 
courts, between men and 
women and between black, 
Asian and other citizens. 

Mr Roy Hatlersley, La¬ 
bour’s deputy leader and 
home affairs spokesman, wel¬ 
comed the principles behind 
the new While Paper, support¬ 
ing the relation of fines to 
ability to pay and the forced 
disclosure of reasons for giv¬ 
ing custodial sentences. 

But be said that if parole 
was given only when half a 
sentence had been served, the 
first effect of the White Paper 
would be to increase the 
prison population. 

• Lord Whitdaw, the former 
Home Secretary, said in the 
Lords that the conditions and 
overcrowding in Britain’s 
prisons endangered society. 

“The prison population has 
risen until it has reached a 
stage where it is not only 
dangerous but wrong in our 
society. 

“Any nation which neglects 
the state of its prisons, and the 
state of prisoners in our 
prisons, is in the end not the 
society it should be.” 


Storm over 
Lawson post 

A storm has broken over Mr 
Nigel Lawson, the former 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
after he accepted a second 
part-time post in the City less 
than a week after joining Barc¬ 
lays Bank. He is to spend two 
days a month on the board of 
GPA, the Irish aircraft leasing 
company, at a reported salary 
of more than £30,000. 

Chaplain accuses, page 2 
GPA results, page 23 

Regalian sale 

Regalian, the biggest residen¬ 
tial developer in Docklands, 


will today put 600 flats worth 
£180 milli on for sale on a 
5030 shared ownership baas. 
Business News— . 


23 


INDEX 


Home News. 
Overseas. 
Business. 
Sport- 
Aits. 


.23-28 
,40-44. 
.18 


Births, marriages, deaths—17 

Cans to the Bar— -‘~ tfi 

Court 


- 09-20 

Crosswords——— id 

S3SC= --»i i -i*g 

Information-.—. 

Leading articles—■— ~ i5 

Letters—-■—-*•-“"30-31 

Media - ie 

Obituary -— _ _ i 2 
Parliament — 

Property— 

Saleroom 



Prince calls for a 
hardwood boycott 

By Michael McCarthy, EnvirtHunent Correspondent 

The Prince ofWales called last said in a speech at Kew 
night for a boycott of tropical 
hardwood products in a pas¬ 
sionate and outspoken plea to 
save the world’s rainforests. 

The hardwoods, which in¬ 
clude mahogany, teak and 
ebony, should be avoided 
altogether by consumers, 

“rather than risk contributing 
to their unnecessary demise”, 
the Prince said. 

He called for a new global 
rainforest treaty, saying that 
international organizations 
chaiged with halting defores¬ 
tation — the International 
Tropical Timber Organization 
and the UN-backed Tropical 
Forest Action Plan, which was 
promised £100 million of ex¬ 
tra British aid by Mrs Mar¬ 
garet Thatcher last November 
— were failing in their task. 

“Deforestation has actually 
increased massively d uring 
the time that these two institu¬ 
tions have been at work,” K “ 


he 


in a speecn at 
Gardens, south-west London. 
They concerned themselves 
only with timber production, 
and did not take account of 
ihe interests of forest peoples. 

He sugested that the West 
would have to relieve Third 
World debt before efforts at 
raving the rainforests could be 
successful. “For hundreds of 
years, the industrialized na¬ 
tions of the world have ex¬ 
ploited, some vttraJd^ay 

foMhdr^atural wealth,” he 
said. “The time has come to 
put something back.” 

Ours was the last generation 
that could save the tropical 
rainforests, the Prince said. 

Professor Ghillean Prance, 
director of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, said: “lire Prince 
has said things that a poli¬ 
tician who needs to seek 
election might not dare to da 
1 hope the world will listen.” 



TIMES 



WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


shirt 


MJEPENDBfTTELEVISKM NEWS 





Royal target: The Queen appears mpertabed as the Mack T-shirt flies towards her myesterday’iB protest by Maori radicals. 


Woman 

protester 

charged 

FromRkhardLoag 

Wellington 

A young woman was arrested 
at Waitangi yesterday after 
throwing a wet doth at the 
Queen during celebrations to 
mark the founding of modem 
New Zealand. Maori radicals 
also bedded the Queen during 
a speech die gave for the 
Waitangi Day celebrations. 

The Queen appeared un¬ 
disturbed by the incident. 
Seated with the Duke of 
Edinburgh in the back of an 
open car, she continued to 
smile as the strip of Mack 
dothing, which appeared to be 
a T-shirt, brushed her as it 
passed over her left shoulder. 

She appeared surprised, 
rather than shocked, as she 
was leaning forward, appar¬ 
ently thinking the young 
woman was about to hand her 
something. A security guard in 
the c ar grabbed the doth while 
spectators and Maori war¬ 
riors, providing a guard of 
honour for the Queen, sur¬ 
rounded the woman and 
handed her over to the police. 

She was carried away by two 
policemen to boos from spec¬ 
tators and later charged with 
disorderly behaviour. 

The incident was the most 
serious at the celebrations 
yesterday to mark the 150th 
anniversary of the signing of 
the Treaty of Waitangi on 
February 6, 1840. Generally 
regarded as die nation’s 
founding document, the treaty 
is the subject of bitter dissent 
within New Zealand’s Maori 
population. 


Gorbachov given rough ride on reforms 


From Mary Dejevsky 
Moscow 

President Gorbachov’s pro¬ 
posed reforms of the Soviet 
Communist Party—including 
his acceptance of an eventual 
multi-party system — were re¬ 
ported yesterday to have en¬ 
countered strong opposition 
at the Central Committee 
meeting, which was extended 
unexpectedly into a third day. 

There were conflicting re¬ 
ports about the way his pro¬ 
posals were received, but one 
unconfirmed version said that 
fierce condemnation came 
among others from the leading 
conservative, Mr Yegor Liga- 
chov, whose hard-hitting 
speech was said to have been 
punctuated by applause. 


There were ab rreporfa of the 
reforms receiving strong back¬ 
ing from his colleagues. 

Officials had predicted con¬ 
fidently that the meeting 
would end yesterday, but it 



Mr Iigachov: Won applause 
for his hard-hitting attack. 


was reported in mid-evening 
that it was to be extended. 

Mr Vladimir Brovikov, the 
Soviet Ambassador to Poland 
who is also a member of the 
Central Committee, on Mon¬ 
day night led the conservative 
attack by criticizing Mr 
Gorbachov for ha 1 ving tried to 
extend his personal power — 
an oblique reference to his 
proposal to make the post of 
State President more powerful 
— and blamed the policy of 
perestroika for causing the 
present economic disruption. 

The envoy said the main 
mistake had been to try to 
introduce democracy without 
first enforcing law and order. 

Subsequent speakers ech¬ 
oed his views, describing the 
Soviet Union as verging on 


anarchy and chaos. However, 
Mr Gorbachov's vision of a 
nation governed by “humane 
democratic socialism” in 
which the party would take 
part in dialogue with other 
groups and compete with 

Resignation call ............8; 

Calculated gamble .~~~14 

them for power, received 
strong support from several 
senior leadership mimbers. 

Mr Nikolai Ryzhkov, the 
Prime Minister, whose enthu¬ 
siasm for political reform has 
sometimes seemed lukewarm, 
was quoted by Tass as raying 
that a multi-party system was 
now a "fait accompli in the 
Soviet Union. “Communists 
should learn the difficult sci¬ 


ence of how to work and live 
logetha’ with other social and 
political entities,” he said. 

His views were supported 
by the new head of the party 
organization in Moldavia, 
which faces opposition from a 
strong nationalist movement 
seeking unification with Rom¬ 
ania. He called for a new 
treaty to define relations be¬ 
tween them and Moscow to 
make the country a “union of 
sovereign states”. 

The new party leader in 
Azerbaijan, which has been in 
a state of virtual war with the 
neighbouring republic of Arm¬ 
enia for the past two months, 
said part of the trouble 
stemmed from republics look¬ 
ing to Moscow for solutions to 
their problems. 


New wind 
and storm 
alert today 

By Paul Wilkinson 

Floods and high winds are 
expected to strike Britain to¬ 
day as a depression moves in 
from the Atlantic. 

Scotland and Northern Ire¬ 
land should get some respite, 
at least until the evening, from 
the foul weather, but coastal 
regions in southern England 
can expect a battering. 

The London Weather Cen¬ 
tre said: “The mam problem 
win be the rain coming after so 
much has already fallen.” 

Two fishermen were miss¬ 
ing in Plymouth Sound last 
night after a search by a Navy 
helicopter, a lifeboat and 
coastguard patrols. The men, 
one aged 40 and the other 17, 
were collecting crab pots in 
their 17ft boat Tara 1. 

Brixham coastguards said: 
“Sea conditions woe choppy 
but we have no idea what 
Continued on page 22, col 5 


De Klerk makes 
more concessions 


By Ray Kennedy, Johannesburg, and Gavin Bell, Cape Town 

South Africa added new con¬ 
cessions yesterday to Presi¬ 
dent de Klerk’s reforms, 


saying it would scrap the 
three-yearokJ stale of emer¬ 
gency completely as soon as 
possible and indicating that it 
was a willing to end race 
classification, the foundation 
of apartheid. 

Mr RJF. “Pik” Botha, the 
Foreign Minister, told journ¬ 
alists: “I think it must be 
obvious that this Government 
would wish to withdraw the 
last bit of the emergency 
situation as soon as possible.” 
He said that the ANC, in its 
response to Mr de Klerk, 
could help make this possible. 

Mr Gerrit Vfljqen, the Min¬ 
ister of Constitutional Affairs, 
said at a news conference that 
the 1950 Population Registra¬ 
tion Act, which classifies 
everyone by race at birth, 
would be up for negotiation in 
proposed talks on a shared 


future for the country’s five 
million whites and 27 million 
blacks. 

The concessions came 
Nelson Mandela, the national¬ 
ist leader, seemed to move 
away from confrontation with 
Pretoria over the terms for 


Threat to Mandela_10 

Journalists expelled _10 


his release, saying that the 
lifting of the emergency was 
not a precondition. 

Dr Alan Boesak, president 
of the World Alliance of 
Reformed Churches, said after 
conferring with the ANC lead¬ 
er yesterday that Mandela still 
wanted the Government to 
release all political prisoners 
and to lift the state of emer¬ 
gency before freeing him. 

“But if they come in here 
and tell him ’We’re releasing 
you now*, he will not hang on 
Continoed on page 22, col S 


A handy gadget to avoid mother-in-law’s call 





From Charles Brenmer 
New York 

You are thinking of buying a stereo, so 
you telephone a firm in another state to 
check their prices. A salesw oman an¬ 
swers, greeting you by name, inquires 
about your love of Wagner and suggests 
a CD player for your wife’s Toyota. 

How on earth could she have all that 
information on you and your family? 
Very simply, thanks to the technology 
now being deployed by the big US 
telephone companies. 

To the delight of marketing firms and 
the victims of obscene calls, and to the 
honor of philanderers and ex-directory 
subscribers, the telephone companies 
are now equipping home telephones in 
half a dozen stales to indicate the 


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number making the cafl. One experi¬ 
mental service in New Jersey even 
announces the mme of the caller on a 
loudspeaker to help you to decide 
whether to pick up the telephone. 

Business subscribers have been using 
“caller identification” services profit¬ 
ably for a couple of years, but with the 
technology now becoming available to 
private customers. Congress and state 
legislators around the country are step- 
pang in to curb what many people see as 
gross invasion of their privacy. 

Last week a draft law was introduced 
in the Senate to give callers the right to 
prevent their telephone numbers from 
being seen. The Pennsylvania legislature 
has just barred the introduction of 
“caller ID” pending legal hearings, and 
California Ins ordered the telephone 


company to supply free“ID Mocking” to 
all subscribers who want it before 
launching its new service. 

The supporters of “caller ID” say they 
do not understand what the fuss is about. 
Seeing the number, and with some serv¬ 
ices the name andaddress, of your caller, 
enables you to screen calls, to avoid 
your mother-in-law, ex-spouse or a com¬ 
puter trying to sell you 1^ insurance. 

There have been few complaints in 
New Jersey, where the scheme has been 
operating for over a year. For a small fee, 
the customer there receives a digital box 
that displays the calling number. The 
police say anonymous and obscene calls 
have dropped dramatically. 

It is also assumed to have caused a 
drop in calls from errant spouses saying 
they are working late at the office. 


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HOME NEWS 


THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 




USAF stop flights 
after second crash 


Most chemicals missed by water monitoring 


By Pearce Wright, Science Editor 


Flights by US fighter aircraft in Britain ware grounded for 
the day while safety procedures were reviewed yesterday 
after two jets crashed wi thin 24 hours; although the USAF 
insisted that the two accidents were just an unfortunate 
coincidence (Paul Wilkinson writes). 

The grounding order came after the pilot of an A10 
“Tankbuster” from RAF Ateonbury, Cambridgeshire, died 
when his plane went down in the Black Mountains near 
Capel-yMBin in Powys. Another US airman was killed on 
Monday when his Fl-11 bomber crashed into The Wash off 
Lincolnshire, and a second crew member is missing. 

The USAF said: “We have decided to suspend operations 
in the UK so we can review safety procedures and 
operations. There is no suggestion of a fault in the planes 
because they are very different aircraft These crashes were 
unrelated. The only things they have in common are that 
they both happened in the UK within a short space oftime.” 

Normal flying operations would be resumed today. 


Only a fraction of the man-made 
chemicals seeping into the water 
networks of Britain are being mon¬ 
itored, according to Professor John 
Knifl, chairman of the Natural 
Environment Research GxmciL 

Yesterday he told experts from 
the new National Rivets Authority, 
the water authorities and local 
government that “there has never 
been a time when the problems of 
water quality were so generally 
recognized, or to which solutions 
were so mgently demanded". 

Professor KniH opened a meeting 
at which scientists from a number of 
the coimriTs laboratories presented 


the findings of joint research point¬ 
ing to serious water quality 
problems. 

Dr Paul Whitehead, from coun- 
tiTs Institute of Hydrology, at 
Wallingford, Berkshire, gave results 
showing that the agricultural chemi¬ 
cals running into rivers and streams 
rose dramatically during random 
weather events such as storms. 

He said they had monitored the 
movement of amarine, an organic 
herbicide used in corn and hop 
production and on industrial sites. 

Water samples collected over a 
period which included two succ¬ 
essive. boots of rain -showed peak 
amarine levels of €Q 
per litre, against the EC recom¬ 


mended drinking water limit of 2 
micrograms per litre. 

He said the extent to which such 
high levels were subsequently re¬ 
duced by degradation and dilution 
further down the river network had 
robe assessed. 

Most current routine monitoring 
programmes into pesticide run-off 
did not take into account factors 
such as random weather events and 
periods of peak application of a 
particular pesticide or herbicide, he 
said. There was also a need to 
improve environmental quality 
standards in situations where the EC 
drinking water directive was not 
appropriate. 

Dr Stephen Foster, of the British 


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wtuch supplied 30 per cent or puDnc studying the impact of 

water supplies, were o^rlfcwt dSb which rnTbemg 

from an increasing numbw of for . 


water supphes, were un^uu— modern dumricab which are being 
from an increasing number oi monitoring for the 

soluble chemicals from agriculture detected^ regular 

and industry. 

He said: “GroimdwaW P®®u, -y *»»- options for treating 
takes place stealthily* almost nn^ , _ pollution were expen- 

deep amriferameansUial it will tele In addition 

M 3 that arid ram draining from the 

“Rvihe time the dan£er is realized uplands was twice the leyd pre- 

tfSHSTS ^estimat^hasimp^ 

SSdybS," heW Dr Fbs- lions for many forests. 


Call for court access 


Masked 


Mr Allan Green, Director of Public Prosecutions, yesterday 
made out his strongest case yet for lawyers in the Crown 
Prosecution Service to be given the right to take crown court 
cases (Frances Gibb writes). He said that if they were not, 
and solicitors in private practice were, it would have a 
“deleterious effect” on recruitment to the service. Under the 
Courts and Legal Services Bill now in the Lords, the Lord 
Chancellor’s new advisory committee, with the senior 
judges and the professions, will agree rules on wider rights of 
audience for solicitors. 


the Queen 


accuses 


999 crews‘returning’ T iflWSflfl of 


Leaders of the ambulance crews denied last night that the 
dispute was beginning to crumble in spite of a claim by Mr 
Alan Parker, Chief Ambulance Officer ofUac^stershire, that 
staff in his area were returning to work in steady numbers 
(Tim Jones writes). There was also a return to work, by 11 
crew members at Wilfond, Nottinghamshire. A spokes¬ 
woman for Nupe said: “In spite of these isolated reports, the 
reality is that the dispute is hardening.” 


pay greed 



Award for comedian 


By Richard Ford and Graham Seujeant 
Chaplain to the Queen was a case of the “rich getting'] 
yesterday accused Mr Nigel richer and the poor gening ( 


The Variety Qub of Great Britain, the showbusiness charity, 
named Lenny Henry, the comedian who fronted the Comic 
Relief fund-raising campaign last year, as its Personality of 
the Year yesterday. Rowan Atkinson was named BBC TV 
personality. Sir John Gielgud, aged 85, received a special 
award for his services to entertainment over 60 years. The 
cast of Coronation Street was given the ITV personality 
award. The awards were presented at the London Hilton. 


Lawson, the former Chan- poorer". Mr Lawson win be 
cellor of the Exchequer, of joining senior Irish politicians 


being “greedy” fin: having at GPA, the aircraft leasing 
accepted appointments earn- firm which was started in the 


ing more than £100,000a year. 
The Church of England 


mid 1970’s by Mr Tony Ryan. 
Dr Garret FitzGerald, the 


clergyman said it was difficult forma: Prime Minister of the 
for the Government to per- Irish Republic, and Mr Peter 


Benefit appeal fails 


suade people to accept small 
pay increases when they saw 


Sutherland, the republic’s for¬ 
mer EC Commissioner, are 


the rich getting richer and both non-executive directors, 
people accepting appoint- Mr Sean Donkm, the repub- 


An important challenge to government powers to daw back 
benefits wrongly paid to claimants foiled yesterday in the 
Court of Appeal. It rejected an appeal by Mr Alan Britnell, 
of Aid wick, Manchester, against a High Court decision 
allowing the Department of Social Security to recoup over¬ 
payments of unemployment benefit marip 16 years ago. The 
court supported a High Court ruling that under the 1986 
Social Security Act the department could make the dawbacks. 


ments with large salaries. lie’s former Ambassador in 
Mr Lawson was also Washington, and former Seo- 
critidzed by Mr Reg Hales, rotary to the Department of 
the leader of the Conservative Foreign Affairs is vice-presi- 


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group of Birmingham City dent and last year Sir John 
council, who has transferred Harvey-Jones, former ICI 


A masked man in the “uniform” of an RUC constable handing over what “loyalist" para m i l itaries claimed was an 
intelligence dossier to two armed members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters. The film was shown on Ulster Television. 


Clarke in talks call 


hfn account from Barclay’s chairman. 
Bank where the former Chan- a^pany. 
cellor is believed to be earning ^t realty 


joined 


Police attack ‘dossier handover’ 


It really is a coup for GPA 


at least £100,000 as a two-day- to get a former British Otan- 


Mr Kennelh Clarke, Secretary of State for Heallh, yesterday 
called for talks with health professionals in an attempt to 
aHayfcara for clinical standards in a reformed health service 
(Nick Nuttall writes). The Department of Health said the 
move, in the form ofa letter to the presidents of the medical 
royal colleges, should not be seen as a a government U-turn 
on the health reform BilL It does does not include the 
introduction of sdfgovemmg hospitals or GP budgets. 


week non-executive director. 
Mr Hales said the salary was 
“almost obscene”. 


cellor,” said one source in the 
republic. 

Last night in Dublin it was 


as a pathetic publicity stunt 


Canon John Grim wade, a *«ng said tfot Mr Lawson's 
chaplain to the Queen, expertise and lmovdofee of 


By Edward Gorman, Irish Affairs Correspondent 


Rushdie tells of 
ferocious attacks 


By Jenny Knight 


Salman Rushdie referred to 
the “bewildering ferocity” of 
attacks on The Satanic Vases 
. in a lecture delivered last night 
by Harold Pinter, his friend 
and Mow writer, amid strin¬ 
gent security precautions at 
the Institute of Contemporary 
Arts in Loudon. 

Mr Rushdie wrote of his 12 
months spent in hiding 
because of death threats from 
those who consider the book 
to be blasphemous. 

He said: “It has always been 
a shock to roe to meet people 
for whom books simply do not 
matter. In the last 12 months I 
have been obliged to accept 
that for many millions of 
human beings, these books are 
dearly without value. 

“We have been witnessing 
an attack upon a particular 
work of fiction that is also an 
attack upon the very ideas of 
the novel form, an attack of 
such bewildering ferocity that 
it has become necessary to re- 
. state what is most precious 
about the art of literature.” 

The 40-minute talk was 
heard by an audience of 200 


and filmed by the BBC In 
contrast to the normally re¬ 
laxed security at the institute, 
all bags were searched and 
viators subjected to a check 
with metal detectors. 

The Herbert Read me¬ 
morial lecture, in which Mr 
Rushdie discussed the stale of 
the modem novel, was en¬ 
titled “Is Nothing Sacred?” 

Until recently, he would 
have replied no. “Now, 
however, I find my entire 
world picture under fire. Do I 
perhaps find something sacred 
after all? Ami prepared to set 
aside as holy the idea of the 
absolute freedom of the imagi¬ 
nation and alongside it my 
own notions of The World, 
The Text and The Good?" 

In an interview given a year 
ago but broadcast for the first 
time last night, the author said 
that his Muslim critics had 
mistaken The Satanic Verses 
for fact. 

He conceded, however, on 
the BBC radio arts pro¬ 
gramme Kaleidoscope it might 
have caused offence because it 
charted new territory. 


Westminster and Whitehall 
would be an enormous advan -1 
tage to the form who through 
' Mr Sutherland has good con¬ 
tacts in Europe, through Dr 
FitzGerald strong links with 
. the republic’s civil service and 
via Mr Donion good links 
with business and the political 
world in the United States. 

GPA is the world’s largest 
aircraft leasing company, built 
up from scratch by Mr Ryan, a 
former Aer Lingus executive, 
in the tax haven of Shannon. 
It is wrath about £2 billion. 

Mr Lawson, who resigned 
Mr Lawson: Joining Irish as Chancellor of the Ex- 


aircraft leasing company. chequer in October, will be 


criticized Mr Lawson after the 


announcement that he was 
joining the board of GPA, the 
Irish aircraft leasing company 
based in Shannon, Co Clare, 
ala salary of between £30,000 
-£40,000. 

He said it was wrong for the 
Government to encourage 
ambulancemen to accept 
small wage rises when the 
former Chancellor was getting 
such a large salary. 

“When you get the am¬ 
bulancemen standing up for 
their wage claim, these 
appointments do not make it 
easy for the Government to 
expea others to accept small 
increases,” Canln Grimwade 
said. 

“It is a symptom of an 


He will be a non-executive 
main board director and 
chairman of GPA Financial, a 
new subsidiary, which will 
develop ways of selling in¬ 
terests in aircraft and aircraft 
leases direct to investors. 

As with Barclays, GPA de¬ 
clined to say how much it will 
pay Mr Lawson, but it is 
thought he will receive be¬ 
tween £30,000 and £40.000 
per year. Mr Lawson will join 
Sir John Harvey-Jones, and 
Mr Sutherland, as GPA non¬ 
executive directors. 

Mr Ryan, GPA's chairman 
and chief executive; said: “Mr 
Lawson is one of the world's 
foremost economic and finan¬ 
cial thinkers. His experience 


Loyalist panunffitaries yes¬ 
terday resorted to what the 
police described as a “pathetic 
publicity stent” in a further 
ft«»iinpn yi» w i»«fWM Mr John 
Stevens, Deputy Chief Con¬ 
stable of Cambridgeshire, who 
Is investigating alle g ati on s of 
coUusmn between “loyalists” 
and the seemity forces. 

A report on Ulster Tele¬ 
vision news showed what “loy¬ 
alists” claimed was a masked 
constable in foe RUC handing 
over an intelligence “dossier” 
to two armed and masked 
members of the Ulster Free¬ 
dom Fighters, the military 
wing of the Ulster Defence 
Association. 

The report followed an 
anonymous phone call to UTV 
offices in Belfast on Monday 
night, tdfog them to send a 
reporter to a secret location 
near the ShankhiB Road, dose 
to where they Bhned the 
handover. 

UTV were not able to 
establish what was inside the 
“dossier” or whether the 
policeman was g en uin e. “We 
were happy it certainly was 


loyalist paramilitaries en¬ 
gaged m s omething ,” said Mr 
Guy Gillespie, the station’s 
news editor. 

“What we can't say is 
whether they were actively en¬ 
gaged in collecting infonna- 
tion from an RUC man or whe¬ 
ther they were trying to dis¬ 
credit the RUC in some way.” 

The police dismissed the 
episode. Emptying it was little 
more than street theatre in a 
further attempt to embarrass 
the RUC and Mr Stevens, 
after “photo-copied mon¬ 
tages” of IRA suspects ap¬ 
peared on walls in north and 
west Belfast early on Monday. 

In a statement the police 
said: “This was simply 
another pathetic publicity 
stunt by the UDA, who are 
obviously feudal of the 
progress of foe Stevens inquiry 
and are endeavouring to dis¬ 
credit both it and die RUC.” 

The police said that even a 
casual examination of the to¬ 
ok warn by the purported pol¬ 
iceman in the film showed it to 
be ill-fitting. He appeared not 
to be wearing the correct shirt 


and belt- A daim by the UFF 
that he was a member of the 
so-called “Inner Circle” was 
c on te np teously dismissed. 

The “Inner Circle” date 
to be a secret “loyalist” 
organization within the RUC 
with member officers hi all but 
ram of the force’s 38 sub¬ 
divisions committed to the 
destruction of the Anglo-Irish 
agreement and tire diminution 
of republican terrorist 
suspects. 

When its existe nc e was first 
suggested in early October, 
Mr Hugl AmKstey, the CMef 
Constable, described the claim 
as “arrant nonsense”. An 
investigation has so far failed 
to find evidence that the group 
exists. 

Mr Stevens, whose in¬ 
vestigation has been under 
way for nearly five months at a 
cost of more than half a 
million pounds, has changed a 
number of UDA men, among 
more than 30 people brought 
before the courts faring a 
variety of offences associated 
with allegations of collnsion. 
One senior member of the 


raganfeation in custody . Is 
believed to have’ tamed 
“super-grass” and may have 
implicated some of his former 
cofleagnea in up to a dozen 
murders. 

• A part-time Royal Ulster 
Constabulary reservist was 
Seriously fll hi hospital yes¬ 
terday after a booby trap bomb 
exploded as he fifed a bail of 
hay at his form near Omagh, 
Co Tyrone. 

The reservist, aged 50, who 
fo married with a family, 
sustained injuries to Ms face, 
legs and stomach. The alarm 
was raised by a neighbour, 
who rushed to the scene after 
hearing the Mast 

There were reports that the 
man's form had recently been 
searched by the security forces 
who were conducting a follow¬ 
up operation last night to. 
check for further devices. 

• Mr Peter Brooke, Secret ar y 
of State for Northern Ireland, 
has sent written invitations for 
a further round of talks with 
the two unionist leaders, Mr 
Jim Motyneaeoc, and Dr Ian 
Paisley. 


Channel tunnel progress sets a record 


memscixciuL- 


W 


By Michael Dynes 
Transport Correspondent 


element of greed creeping into will contribute enormously to 
society. The Tenth the development of GPA”. 


Commandment is ‘Thou Shaft GPA is not quoted on the 


Not Covet’ and we all seem to. stock market but is owned by 
be coveting more and more.” an impressive list of inter- 
Canon Grimwade, a Chap- national finnnriai institutions 
Iain to the Queen since 19S0, and airlines, 
added that the appointment Lawson spearhead, page 23 i 


Progress on the Channel Tun¬ 
nel improved dramatically in 
January even though the Brit¬ 
ish construction crews are still 
trailing their French counter¬ 
parts, Eurotunnel announced 
yesterday. 

In its latest report on 


progress, Eurotunnel said 
Transmanchc Link, the An¬ 
glo-French construction con¬ 
sortium excavating the two 
running and one service tun¬ 
nels between Chcriton, near 
Folkslone, and Frclhun. near 
Calais, bored and lined a 
record five kilometres. 


met considerably more diffi¬ 
cult geological conditions than 
originally anticipated, al¬ 
though these difficulties have 
now been overcome, leaving a 
mere 14.3 kilometres separat¬ 
ing the British and French 
teams in the service tunneL 


first half of December, leaving 
the French running tunnels 12 
and 16 weeks respectively 
ahead of schedule, and the 
British running tunnels 21 and 
17 weeks behind schedule. 


British boring crews earlier 


Thai tunnel remains on 
target for breakthrough in the 


Only eight of the giant 
boring machines are now in 
operation, but the ninth will 
shortly begin work. 




Attitudes to television 


Police on 


Viewers say BBC biased towards Tories 


By Richard Evans 
Media Editor 


Viewers think BBC Television 
is more biased towards the 
Conservative Party than at 
any time in the past 20 years, 
according to an authoritative 
annual survey of public atti¬ 
tudes published yesterday. 

More than one in lour—27 
per cent — believe BBCl 
favours the Conservatives, 
compared with 9 per cent who 
think it is biased towards the 
Labour Party. 

Similarly, BBC2 is regarded 
as favouring the Tories by 16 
percent of viewers, while only 
4 percent believe it helps Lab¬ 
our. By contrast, ITV has held 
its reputation as being politi¬ 
cally unbiased, while Channel 
4 is seen as being marginally 
helpful towards Labour. 

Viewer perceptions of polit¬ 
ical Mas were disclosed in Alti¬ 
tudes to Television, published 
by the Independent Broad¬ 
casting Auihority.The survey 
shows viewers believe BBC te¬ 
levision is more than twice as 
biased towards the Tories 
since Mrs Margaret Thatcher 
ramr to power. This is in spite 
of persistent attacks in recent 


The Government gave another hint yesterday that ITV franchises may go to companies other 
than those making the highest cash bid. Mr David .Wellor. Minister of State at the Home Office, 
toM MPs that franchises for ITV amid be awarded to “exceptionally belter qualified bidders” 
even if others had submitted higher financial lads. The Independent Television Commission 
would be able to prefer a “more highly qualified” bidder to one who had put in a higher cash offer. 
MrMellor told the standing committee studying the BUI that the ITC could say “no“ to a bid if it 
thought its business plan called into question programme promises that had been “blithely 
given”. In spite of the assurances. Labour MPs were still not satisfed last night. 


years from Conservative poli¬ 
ticians who have accused it of 
anti-government bias. 

Although the structure of 
questioning for the survey last 
year was modified slightly to 
reduce a rising level of “don't 
know” responses concerning 
political bias, this does not 
appear to be responsible for 
the marked increase in per¬ 
ceived BBC bias as ITV and 
Channel 4 figures are almost 
identical to the previous year. 

“The trend seen in previous 
years towards delecting a pro- 
conservative bias on both 
BBC channels has not 
abated,” the survey says. 

Labour was keen yesterday 
not to become embroiled in 
the issue. A senior party 
source said: “The BBC suffers 
from being regarded as the 
establishment channel and the 
establishment in Britain, after 


10 years ofThatcherism, is the 
Conservative Party. 

“Of coarse, the irony is that 
it is the BBC whom the more 
unpleasant elements within 
the Conservative Party, bice 
Mr Norman Tebbit, consist¬ 
ently attack as being more bia¬ 
sed against them them ITV.” 

The BBC said last night: 
“We are concerned about 
perceptions of bias. But we 
undersrand there have been 
modifications in the way ques¬ 
tions were structured in 
connection with this report 
We need to look at this—and 
the substance of the report — 
before we respond in detail.” 

The EBA survey of 1,170 
adults also shows that viewers 
were offended less often by 
television output last year. 
Alihough more are aware of 
sex, violence and bad language 
cm screen “the frequency of 


encountering offensive ma¬ 
terial has tended to decrease". 


BBC would give Lloyds a high 
profile, with visual and verbal 
credits during broadcasts. 
Lloyds would be allowed to 
feature the sponsorship in its 
advertising campaigns. 

Mr Yentob said the agree¬ 
ment was within the terms of 
the BBC charter, which allows 
sponsorship of events which 
are televised but not of tele- 


stand-by 
in Toxteth 


Poll tax prompts 
Manchester cuts 


By Ronald Faux 


By Ronald Fame 


All four tcrrestial channels 
- BBCl, BBCL ITV and 
Channei 4 - offended consid¬ 
erably fewer people last year. 
Bad language was cited more 
often by those who took 
offence at programmes. The 
apparent improvement in 
standards coincides with the 
establishment of the Broad¬ 
casting Standards Council, 
chaired by Lord Rees-Mogg. 
• The BBC has edg ed closer 
to the commercial frontiers 
laid down in its charter with 
its latest sponsorship agree- 
^reni. Lloyds Bank is to 
support the Young Musician 
of the Year contest, run by the 
BBC for 14 years, to the tune 
of£U million in the next five 
years (Simon Tail writes). 

Mr Alan Yentob, controller 
of BBC2, said yesterday the 


vision programmes. 

Sir Jeremy Morse, chair¬ 
man of Lloyds Bank, said he 
hoped the arrangement could 
continue beyond five years. 

He made clear that the 
sponsorship was in line with 
the bank's theme of seeking 
younger clients. “People don't 
change their bank very much, 
and the one type the banks all 
most like to get is the talented 
young person,” he said. 

The sponsorship has meant 
a series of masterclasses with 
five top soloists, starting on 
February 19, are to be in¬ 
cluded in the package for this 
year’s Young Musician of the 
Year contest 

Finalists will be accompa¬ 
nied by the National Youth 
Orchestra,—also sponsored by 
Lloyds until recently. 


Police in Toxteth. Liverpool, 
stood by last night to deal with 
further violence after Monday 
night's a tuck by youths on 
police officers. A sergeant was 
slightly injured, three police 
vehicles were stoned and three 
other cars set on fire after 200 
youths went on the rampage. 
Supt Bernard Keegan of 
Merseyside Police appealed 
for calm. 


Tension in the district has 
increased in recent days and 
the Consortium of Black 
Organizations yesterday ac¬ 
cused police of carrying out 
assaults and making wrongful 
arrests. They said police bad 
threatened women and child¬ 
ren with vehicles. 

Mr Clive Atkinson, assis¬ 
tant chief constable for crime 
in Merseyside, said last night 
that the consortium statement 
was “utterly disgraceful”. 

“Women and children in 
Liverpool arc not at risk from 
police vehicles but are in 
constant danger from stolen 
vehicles being driven by local 
youths," he said- 


Manc hester City Council is 
preparing to make swingeing 
cuts in next year’s budget to 
case the impact of the commu¬ 
nity charge or “poll tax”. 

Some 2,000 council workers 
could be offered voluntary 
early retirement or redeploy, 
menl in the trimming exercise 
which the Labour administra¬ 
tion claims has been unjustly 
forced on the city. 

Further education services 
will be slashed and a number 
or residential homes will be 
transferred to the private sec¬ 
tor or dosed. 

Mr Graham Stringer, the 
council leader, claims that 
maintaining services and the 
workforce at present levels 
would mean an unacceptably 
high poll tax of more than 
£700. Revised plans which are 
to be put to a full council 
meeting on February 28 are 
understood to have reduced 
this to about £455 

The council leader has com¬ 
plained in a Icncr to Mr David 
Hunt, Minister for Local Gov¬ 
ernment and Inner Cities, that 
Manchester residents would 
inevitably be left worse off 


The new tax would atrip jobs 
and services from a city in 
need of both. 

. This view is strongly re¬ 
jected by Conservatives on the 
counciL Mr Peter Hflton, 
opposition leader, said 
past sins were cgichfng up 
with the adimwletTHtipfl. 

“They have been big spend¬ 
ers for years and turned to 
creative accountancy schemes 
when the council was rate- 
capped. It gave them a honey- 
“con period which is now 
over and the interest has to be 
paid," he said. 

Mr Hilton rejected Mr 
btnnger*s claims that the city 
would be worse off mder flie 
comm unity charge. It was 
correct that the imfiwi husi- 
ness rate would contribute £85 
nuason towards the £800 nd- 
hon budget, bin the revenue 
|“PP°rt grant would be about 

£200 million. 

He said: “The Gtavero- 
jnent's contribution to 
^tebester has gone up by 13 - 
per cent this year and tor next - 
year external fi na nc i ng ', frill 
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Death of 79 dogs In airtight lorry 


Breeders fined £11,000 foi 
suffocation of beagle pups 

By Michael HorsneO 

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tmtnn, JzLJL . °* lab- porting them. No evidence watering the dogs, McKenzie of the animals. 


Helping hand for first Wrens at sea 


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r— “ ure oi lab- 

SS’gL** 5 ™™'* abroad 
snffbcaiion aboaid 
a North Sea ferry because It 

SrJSES £?* ^ U * hl woaW 

oe spotted by animal libera- 
non sympathizers. 

- f Thc ?9 dogs died from lack 
of oxygen after the breeder 
icsponabie for their weO- 
bemg decided to lock the rear 
S°I'°I? C “ «*** they 

.SdSSs “ » — 

That decision tbeir 

oontwner airtight, since the 

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vehicle inadequate for trans¬ 
porting them. No evidence 
was offered era those counts. A 
further Hrai y « pwna the 
Middlesex transport com¬ 
pany, Mooodc Freight, was 
adjourned until April 10. 

Mr Ian Corbett, for the 
prosecution, said the 100 bea¬ 
gles were packed in individual 
cages on a lorry at Malvern on 
the night of September 5, after 
a Vet had rifriarg d t frgm fit 
and healthy. 

They were then driven over¬ 
night by the Monock driver, 
Mr Harry Stevens, and 


tion officer. Six hoars after 
watering the dogs, McKenzie 
and Mr Stevens returned to 
the tarry and ainside discov¬ 
ered one dog running loose 
and 79 dead. 

The 21 survivors, indnriing 
three which had collapsed, 
were re-crated and dis¬ 
embarked at Sam that day. 
They were later released to 
live as family pets in Sweden. 

In Sweden, four dogs under¬ 
went post-mortem examina¬ 
tions, while the rest were 
cremated. 

Mr Rodney Johnston, a 


sumed” about the well-being 
of the animals. 

In mitigation, MacKenzie, 
of Gmbcrsley Road, Worces¬ 
ter, was said to have been 
appalled by the discovery he 
made on board. It was also 
said that he would lose his 
directorship of Alpha Sirius 
and have nothing further to do 
with the care of animals now 
that his career had been 
wrecked. 

In mitigation for the com¬ 
pany, it was said that Alpha 
Sirius accepted vicarious 
liability and that all three 
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September, and the story of 
how they died was outlined to 
magistrates in Harwich, Fwt 
yesterday, when some of the 
heaviest fines ever imposed 
for a nima l cruelty were 
handed out. 

Paul MacKenzie, aged 35, a 
“-director of the specialist 


ompanied the dogs on the 
ferry was fined £5,500 after 
admitting two charges of caus¬ 
ing unnecessary suffering. 

The company, Alpha Sirius 
Ltd,of Malvern, Hereford and 
Worcesto-.^which traded as 


— after adm?p inp 
tWO identical charg es 
MacKenzie denied two 
further charges that he ex¬ 
posed the dogs to adverse 
conditions and that they had 
no fresh air; the company 
denied loading the beagles in a 


was perhaps the fatal act that 
at that point the back door of 
the tarry was dosed at 11am 
on September 6." 

The consignment of dogs, 
worth about £30,000, had 
been destined for the Swedish 
pharmaceuticals company As¬ 
tra, which bought them to test 


Alzheimer's disease. 

Their documentation des¬ 
cribed them as “breeding 
dogs” and the ferry owners, 
DFDS, were unaware of the 
real reason for their trans¬ 
portation. The breeding com- 


was too sensitive for the dogs 
to be given a stopover kennel 
in Harwich. 

During the journey, Mrs 
Karin NonUander, a Swedish 
dog breeder, heard the dogs 
screaming and repealed the 
matter to the ship’s informs- 


airtight” and completely un¬ 
suitable for transporting 
animals. 

Some of them, whose cages 
were on the upper of two tiers, 
were in a state of rigor mortis 
before it was realized any of 
them had died. 

MacKenzie was interviewed 


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Prevention of Qnelty to Ani¬ 
mals by Ministry of 
Agriculture officials and ac¬ 
cepted that he was responsible 
for the welfare of the dogs 
during the journey. 
MacKenzie, who did not 


dined to comment afterwards, 
tokl investigators in Sweden 
that be did not believe the 
ventilation to- be his 
responsibility. 

But Mr Corbett tokl the 
court that “too much was 
anticipated, too much as- 


after attracting the personal 
attention of Mr John Glim¬ 
mer, the minister—Mr Gum- 
- mer said he was appalled by 
the cruelty. 

"The judgement and fines 
speak for themselves," he 
mid. “I am determined that 
whenever the law is broken we 


wau iv UU115 uxv uupiuh 

to book so that people know 
that cruelty to animals will not 
be tolerated in a civilized 
society.” 

Mr Frank Mfiner, a chief 
superintendent in the Special 
Investigations and Operations 


said: “They deserved what 
they got It was a terrible case 
of animal cruelty. It should 
have been obvious to anyone 
that there were going to be 
problems in that lorry. One 
feels total revulsion about 
what happened.” 


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Kinnock goes on attack 
over ‘raw deal’ report 


Crystal Simmonds, aged 25, a radio operator, one of the first Wrens to volunteer for sea 
duty, receiving a helping hand from crew during a visit to HMS Gloucester yesterday. 


Family savings boom forecast 


By Robin Young 


By Douglas Broom and Philip Webster 


The Prime Minister yesterday 
de fend ed the Government’s 
record on education in the 
wake of a report by Govern¬ 
ment school inspectors which 
said a third.of pupils were 
“getting a raw deaf*. 

There were angry exchanges 
in the Commons when Mr. 
Kinnock, the Labour leader, 
accrued Mis Thatcher ofberag 
“satisfied with the mistreat¬ 
ment of other people’s child- 
ren in education”. 

Speaking above mounting 
uproar, the' Prime Minister 
replied: “The education sys¬ 
tem is in far better shape now 
than it ever has been before.” 

Shortly before the Com¬ 
mons dash Mr John Mac¬ 
Gregor, Secretary of State for 
Education and Science, had 
issued a strongly defensive 
statement asserting that the 
inspectors had been generally 
satisfied with standards. 

The furore followed the 
publication on Monday of the 
*PT»iai repeal of the Senior 
G^Inspector ofSchools, Mr 
Eric Bolton. 

He said that while 70 to 80 
per cent of lessons were 
satisfactory or better, 30 per 
cent of pupils* especially the 
least able, were “getting a raw 
deaT from the state education 
system. 

Mr Kinnock seized on the 
report during Question Time, 
telling Mrs Thatcher angrily: 
“You speak of a good report. 
It just shows how satisfied you 
are with the mistreatment of 
other people’s child ren in 
education.” 

Recalling that the report 
«aid a thir d of children were 
getting a “a raw dear, he 
demanded: “Don’t you con¬ 
sider that to be a damning 
indic tment of yOUT GOV- 


emmem?” Mm Thatcher , who 
had armed herself for an 
expected Commons assault by 
reading the report, disputed 
Mr Kumock’s interpretation. 
Whilst there were a number of 
things to be remedied, 70 to 80 
per cent of work in schools 
was satisfactory. 

"Roughly one-third of an 
levels woe judged good or 
very good. That is not the 
profile of a service in great 
difficulty,** she said. 

With both sides of the 
Commons barracking each 
other, Mr Kinnock said that 
Mrs Thatcher was really say¬ 
ing that because In twtMhinds 
of cases things were not bad, 
that justified the feet that in 
one-third they were foray. 

Mrs Thatcher then bunch¬ 
ed into a defence ofher record. 
She said more was being spent 
per pupil than ever before, 
there were more teachers in 
proportion to pnpfis than ever 
before ami the new National 
Curriculum had been warmly 
praised. 

Shouting above the hubbub, 
Mr Kinnock said Mre Thatch¬ 
er’s reponse showed how eas¬ 
ily she was satisfied by the 
mistreatment of other peo¬ 
ple’s children in education. 

As Tory MPs barracked 
him, Mr Kinnock gestured at 
them and said: “They do not 
even send their children to 

maintained schools." 

Which oi her reforms, be 
demanded, would “stop the 
children of this generation 
being foiled and the children 
of this generation’s future 
being betrayed”. Mrs That¬ 
cher retorted that the inspec¬ 
tors bad faced their task more 
calmly than Mr Kinnock. 

Mr MacGregor, who was 
dearly stung by the tone of 


yesterday’s newspaper report¬ 
ing of the report, said in a BBC 
radio interview that the pos¬ 
itive aspects of the report were 
being ignored. 

' In a statement issued later 
be said the real message of the 
report was that the Govern¬ 
ment’s education reforms 
were “right for the 1990s”. 

In schools, reaction to the 
report was mixed with teach¬ 
ers taking the view that the 

cr iticisms were undul y har sh 

At the Culloden Primary 
School in Bethnal Green, east 
London, Miss Anns Ijpelaar, a 
Dutch teacher recruited last 
October, said she felt the 
criticisms were unfair. 

Miss Ijpelaar, aged 31, who 
spent four years as a music 
adviser in Holland, said: “It 
seems very unfair that the 
inspectors should take this 
negative tone. They should be 
more positive. 

“From what I have seen of 
London schools since I have 
been here the conclusions are 
not feir and they are not true.” 
• King Edward’s School, 
Birmingham, yesterday 
claimed to have broken a 
public school record after 
almost half of its sixth form 
won places at Oxford and 
Cambridge universities. 

Forty-nine boys out of an 
upper-sixth year of 105 at the 
438 year old independent 
school have been made pro¬ 
visional offers of places on 
Oxbridge degree courses — 32 
at Oxford and 17 at Cam- 


People will spend less and 
save more over the next five 
years as high interest rates and 
the credit squeeze continue to 
bite, according to the market 
analysts MinteL 

The organization expects 
people to take holidays at 
home and to cut down on 
buying clothes, smoking, 
drinking and eating out; while 
investing more in pensions 
and insurance. 

Min tel forecasts a 21 per 
cent increase in savings in the 
years to 1994, but even so, the 
level will stifi be lower in real 
terms than it was five years 
ago. At the moment, people 
save about 4 percent of their 
disposable income, compared 
with 10.2 percent in 1984, but 
even a savings boom is not 
expected to take that ratio 
above 4.7 per cent 

Spending on sickness and 
acodent insurance is expected 
to rise by 14 per cent to £1.03 
billion at 1989 prices, while 
pending on life insurance and 
pensions is expected to rfbnb 
12 per cent to £13.66 billion. 

The fastest growing area wiH 

be home and contents in¬ 
surance as premiums rise to 
keep pace with more bur- 


home had been felling with 
more people eating out and a 
third of adults having at least 
one takeaway meal a week. 

The forecasters expect a 
limited recovery in 1991, 
though, which they predict 
will be a “buoyant year” with 
house prices recovering and a 
23 per cent increase in con¬ 
sumer spending. 

By 1994, the resear ch ers 
estimate, total outgoings will 
reach £396 billion (at 1989 


and children’s clothes win 
suffer least because of the 
increase in the number of 
winking women and the rising 
birthrate. 

Min tel estimates that 27 per 
cent of adults are now willing 
to pay a premium for environ- 
mentally-friendly products. 
The survey also finds that the 
British are becoming more 
pro-European, with 72 per 
cent responding positively to 
the notion ofBntain being in a 


HOUSEHOLD SPEHD 

% Change real terms 

n a&a Mintel forecast 


Total spend 



Discretionary 


The Chief Master, Mr Mar¬ 
tin Rogers, who has been head 

of the school for eight years, 
said yesterday: “We are all 
delighted with the record. It is 
a superb achievement. ** 

Parliament, page 12 


Consumer spending will fell 
by l.i per cent this year, 
compared with a rise of nearty 
3 per cent last year, and of 
about 7 per cent in 1988. 

Mintel says "the boom 
years are over” because eco¬ 
nomic performance has deter¬ 
iorated and credit will not be 
so widely available. It expects 
the economic squeeze and 
high interest rates to bite hard 
this year, with people more 
likely to take holidays at 
home, and to cut spending on 
clothing, tobacco, drinks, and 
eating out. 

Spending on food eaten at 


prices), areal increase of 7 per 
cent over five years, compared 
with the real increase of 20 per 
cent from 1984 to 1989. 

For discretionary expen¬ 
diture (excluding tax, national 
insurance payments and heat¬ 
ing and housing costs) the or¬ 
ganization predicts an 
increase of only 5 per cent by 
1994, with a 1.1 per cent 
downturn this year. 

The market expected to do 
worst over the next five years 
is rintTiing , which will be 
handicapped by a fell in the 
number of 15 to 29-year-olds 
in the population, although 
manufa cturers of women’s 


-Total less 
unavoidable 
outgoings 


United States of Europe, pro¬ 
vided a high degree of auton¬ 
omy was maintained. 

British Lifestyles 1990 ( Mintr.l , 
18-19 Long Lam?, London, 
ECIA9HE, £750) 

• About half a million fam¬ 
ilies may be in financial 
difficulties, according to a 
report by the Money Advice 
Funding Working Party, 
which says advice centres will 
need another £10 million over 
the next three years to cope 
with the problems of the 
growing number of families in 
debt It is hoped that £6 
million of this can be raised 
from the private sector. 


The report, published to¬ 
day, es timate s that at least 
200,000 households are in 
serious financial trouble, 
while about 500,000 have pa¬ 
ssing difficulties. 

The working party, which 
sat under the chairmanship of 
Lord Ezra, says a trust should 
be set up to collect and 
disburse funding to advice 
organizations and that a re¬ 
view should be undertaken to 
find the most cost-effective 
way of providing advice. 

“The present service is not 
capable of coping with the 
level of demand and an 
increasing number of people 
are finding themselves in need 
of assistance," it says. 

• House prices in Britain : 
have fallen in each of the past j 
six months, with values down 
by 0.6 per cent in January, a 
Halifax Building Society sur¬ 
vey showed yesterday (Chris¬ 
topher Warznan, Property 
Correspondent writes). 

However, the annual rale of 
house price inflation rose 
slightly in January to 3 per 
cent from 2.8 per cent in 
December. 

The price of new houses 
showed a recovery in January, 
rising by 1 per cent in the 
month — the biggest monthly 
rise since last March — al¬ 
though over a 12-month per¬ 
iod, the rise in the cost of new 
homes remains below that for 
the market as a whole at just 
2.4 per cent. 

In contrast the prices paid 
by first-time buyers in January 
were more depressed than the 
total market, felling by 0.9 per 
cent in the month. 

Tbe Halifax said prices 
were expected to remain weak 
this year, but that would lead 
to increased activity in the 
market and to a firm recovery 
in 1991. 


jet pilots 

By Michael Evans 
Defiance Corresp onde nt 

Ministers are studying tbe 
possibility of aDowing women 
to train as Harrier jump jet 
fighter pilots, it emerged yes¬ 
terday, as the first wrens to 
vohmteer for seafaring defy 
presented themselves a a 
Biyal Navy destroyer. 

Mr Archie HamUtoa, Min¬ 
ister of State for the Armed 
Forces, who a nnoun ced the 
end of fee Navy ban on women 
at sea in the Coraraon g on 
Monday, said he saw no 
reason why there should not be 
female Harrier and heficopter 
pilots. “We’re looking at 
that,” be said an board HMS 
doocestsr, a Type 42 des¬ 
troyer, moored in the Thames. 

Mr Hamilton said a combat 
mission in a Harrier was not 
seen in the same light as hand- 
to-hand fi guri ng on ground. 
The only deobts about women 
becoming fighter pilots were 
financial. It was expensive to 
train a jet pilot; especially if 
she had to leave fee service to 
have a baby, he said. 

The Wrens would be ex¬ 
pected to carry out the same 
tasks as men, ho wever phys¬ 
ically demanding. "These is no 
question of treating them more 
softly than the men.” 

Mr Hamilton said the way 
was open for a woman In 
gmmoaiid a warship after 12 
years and even to win the top 
Navy job. First Sea Lady and 
Chief of Naval Staffi 

Admiral Sir Jnlian Oswald, 
First Sea Lord, said yesterday 
it took Mm 43 years to get to 
the top bat he expected a 
woman to make it hi a shorter 
time. Sir Jnlian said he and 
Ms fellow admirals had supp¬ 
orted felly the derision by Ba¬ 
nisters to send women to sea. 

Commander Jerry Parker, 
raptntw of HMS Glo u cester, 
who presented the first nine 
Wrens who have vobmteered 
to go to sea, said: “Personally, 
I would be delighted to have 
women on board. It’D change 
the atmosphere but I’m sure 
we caH make it work.” 

It was emphasized feat frat¬ 
ernization oa board ship would 
be fcawiwd and fee women 
would have separate deeping 
quarters. Wives of sailers and 
husbands of Wrens would be 
able to nse a free telephone 
line far reassuring chats. 

Gniwmainfant- Antbea Lar- 
ken, director of the Women’s 
Royal Naval Service, said the 
first volunteers wontd go to sea 
this year. 

Second Officer Chella 
Franklin, aged 25, a weapons 
engineer who spent five days 
at sea on HMS Norfolk, a 
Type 23 frigate, said her boy 
friend, a submariner at 
Faslane on the Clyde, was 
pleased she was fee first Wren 
to sail on a warship but "not 
100 per cent happy” about her 
bring at sea with 160 men. 

She said: "We were all so 
busy, K don’t think fee men 
noticed me. They called me 
‘ar’ most of fee time.” 

Navy wives expressed some 
anxiety. Mis Melanie KeQy, 
of Gosport, Hampshire, whose 
husband is a chief petty officer 
on HMS Nottingham, a Type 
42 destroyer, said: “It’s tike 
dangling a carrot in frmtdi 
donkey. They might as weti 
torn fee ships into erasers.” 

However, First Officer Jane 
Russell, aged 36, whose hus¬ 
band is a lieutenant com¬ 
mander based at HMS Dryad, 
P o rtsmouth, said: "1 think it 
might make a few married 
gals think twice about joining 
once tiny have to sign a 
liabtiity committing them to go 
to sea if required.” 


There were no winners of 
yesterday’s Portfolio Plat¬ 
inum competition, so today’s 
prize accumulates to £4,000. 


‘£3,000 sculpture’ may fetch £5m 


VVWIVM w "-.-. , _- 

Avery, 3 Gnnsue s expen, 
when it fetched £715,000 last 

September against an estimate 

of £3,000 to £4,000, goes on 
show in London today with a 
probable price tag of £5 mil¬ 
lion to £6 milbon. 

The display, at the Alex 
Wengraf ga««y * 59*0 
Jermyn Street follows restora¬ 
tion of the piece, and march 
by Mrs Pat Wengraf It was 
she who spotted the work 
lying on the grass at fee 
Wrotham Park auction m 

Kent, catalogued as an 18ti£ 

century white marbte half- 
length figure of Venus Marma, 
her bead turned to sinister. 

Since taking her gamble, she 

has proven its authenticity as 
an important work by fee 
16 th-century m a nne rist sculp¬ 
tor Giambologna. 

“It is a unique piece* and 

has a fife provenance now, 

Mr Alex Wengraf raid yes¬ 
terday. “It is one of only three 
outside Italy, and so I leave 
you to draw your own conclu¬ 
sion about fee price . 

As to whether Dr Charles 
Avery, the world expert on 
Giambologna, ha»sj« v £f^J& 
nniniOD on the work, he said . 
2\V e have asked him to come 


■by Sarah Jane Cheddand 
Art Market 
Correspondent 

up and see the work, but it has 

never been convenient.** 

• Admirers of John Rusltin, 
the 19th-century art philos¬ 
opher and and early exponent 
of “green” issues, are angry at 
the proposed sale by Sotheby’s 
of a mass of material related to 
him, estimated at £250.000. 

The 300 paintings and 
drawings are not valuable by 
themselves, fee highest es¬ 
timate being £40,000 in total 
for four 7ft sketches drawn by 
Burne-Jones for the E ng l is h 
church in East Berlin. None is 
by Ruskio himself. But Ras¬ 
kin experts, often as obsessive 
as he famously was, believe 
any dispersal would da mag e 
his legacy. 

“Raskin had such a wide, 
crazy mind, you never can teO 
wfaat pieces are going to be of 
use,” Mr Peter Fuller, the 
author of a recent work on 
Raskin, said. 

The sale, scheduled for 
April, was a “tragedy”. 

The plan for aa auction was 





The Gmmhnlngna scalptere, 
which has beat restored, 
hatched by Laid Lloyd of 
Kfigerran, chairman aiw the 

1950s of the Brantwood Trust. 

It runs Br an twood, Rus- 
kin’s home in fee Lake Dis¬ 
trict, and is also responsible 
for a collection at Bembridge 

school on fee Isle ofWight, set 
up under Ruskxnian principles 
by John Howard Whitehouse, 
a Raskin follower. & bought 
much of Raskin’s own collec¬ 
tion, as well as other hems, 
like the Burne-Joneses, which 
he considered were in the 
spirit of Rnskin. It is hugely 


tins last category which is 
being sold. 

“My family has spent tens 

of thousands of pounds on fee 
Rnskin collection," Lord 
Lloyd said. “Now we have got 
to get an endowment fund, 
going to pay for fee curator 
and for restoration of works 
by Ruskin himself* • 

"We are only selling things 
that are not directly related to i 
Ruskin.” 

The collection was used as 1 
"a valuable aid" for teaching \ 
geography and history. How¬ 
ever, fee present headmaster 
is technology-conscious, and 
complains about the cost of its 
upkeep, he said. 

He had been trying for 
several years to get someone 
to sponsor fee coflectfon. 

However, Mr Fuller said: 
“It is not true that every step 
has been taken. There are a 
whole range of people who are 
fanatrraHy interested. Noite of 
us has been consulted at alL” 

Lord Lloyd hopes fee 
remainder of fee collection 
will soon have its own, new { 
gallery, thanks to assistance : 
from fee National Heritage 
Memorial Fund and from an 

unspecified university, which 
proposes to raise £1.6 million. 


Former MI6 agent denies running the 
biggest US marijuana smuggling ring 


By David Sapsted 


Howard Marks, an Oxford 
graduate, convicted drugs 
smuggler and one-time MI6 
agent, yesterday denied from a 
Miami prison cril that he had 
headed fee largest operation 
importing marijuana into tbe 
United States. 

He admitted that, in the 
past, he had used pop groups 
to cmng gle hashish from 
Colombia, Pakistan, Thailand 
and the Lebanon into fee US 
but said feat it was nonsense 
to suggest, as America’s Drag 
Enforcement Agency has, that 
he had become toe “Marco 
Polo of international drugs 
trafficking”. 

Marks, aged 44, was arrest¬ 
ed in Spain in 1988 after one 
of the world’s largest drugs 
investigations involving en¬ 
forcement agencies in 14 
co un tries, including Britain. 
His brother-in-law, Patrick 
Lane, has been found guilty of 
fainwtaring drugs money and 
Macks faces charges in the US 
which, if proven, could result 
in a 30-year prison sentence. 

In an. interview wife fee 
BBC Wales programme Week 
In Week Ota, shown last 


night, he denied claims that he 
had $30 million (about £17.3 
million) in secret bank -ac¬ 
counts, but said he had no 
regrets about nmnfpfmg mari¬ 
juana that resulted, even¬ 
tually, in a two-year prison 
spn T cm y in Britain. 

“If I had my life all over 
a gtt in , then I think 1 would 
probably still have smuggled 
mar ij uana Marijuana hasn’t 
killed anyone in 8,000 years of 
its use and to describe me as 
pwiiffing ( feajh is both ex¬ 
tremely insulting and in¬ 
correct,” he said. 

While on bafi in Britain on a 
drugs-smuggling charge in 
1974, Marks disappeared for 
six years. He said he had 
roamed the world on false 
passports before being re- 
arrested in 1980 on a second 
smuggling charge, only to be 
found not guilty after his Hnks 
wife fee intelligence services 
were admitted in court. 

“I accept feat I was ex¬ 
tremely lucky to get acquitted 
and extremely surprised to be 
acquitted. I made out that 
during my involvement wife 
die smug glin g venture I 


was relating wife intelligence 
agencies, which was true. I 
mean, I stQl maintained 
relationships wife intefligence 
agencies during that period.” 

He claimed that his involve¬ 
ment wife MI6 in 1973 was to 
set up fronts through a dress- 
shop enterprise; give informa¬ 
tion on IRA gun-smuggling 
routes into the Irish Republic 
based on his experiences of 
CTimg gltn g drugs; and develop 
8 relationship wife an em¬ 
ployee at the Czech embassy. 

Marks, whom Drugs En¬ 
forcement Agency officials al¬ 
lege had run a worldwide 


for 18 years, claimed he had 

washed big hands of drag 

smuggling in the 1970s and 
denied lJS police claims feat 
his wine importation arid 
travel agency businesses were 
a front behind which be 
operated fee drags trade. 

Masks admitted knowing 
Lord Moynjhan — half- 
brother of Mr Colin Moyni- 
han, fee Minister of Sport — 
who is in hiding in fee United 
Stales and who is wanted in 
Britain on a longstanding 


fraud charge. He is expected to 
be a key prosecution witness 
when Marks comes to trial 
taler this year. 

Marks said he went into fee 
smuggling business for money 
and because he was “a fanatic 
proponent of the legalization 
of marijuana”. He said he had 
made up to £25,000 from his 
activities in a good year but, 
normally, about £10,000. 

He denied be had been 
involved in smuggling in fee 
1980s and claimed he was a 
victim of the hysteria in fee 
anti-dings war in the US. 

“I know in myself I’ve done 
nothing wrong. I try to cope 
wife it by reading, by helping 
other people, by trying to 
make my life as useful as 
possible. The worst part is 
separation from my family 
and the suffering that it is 
causing my children, my wife 
and parents.” 

Marks’s wife Jndhh is back 
in Majorca wife their three 
children after being expelled 
from the US. She ptaadyd 
guilty to her part in importing 
hashish but did not have to 
serve an 18-month sentence. 























THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 



You'd probably agree that the chances of 
being struck by lightning are pretty slim. Never¬ 
theless, Peugeot would like to think their drivers 
were prepared for even this occasional hiccup. 

That’s why they’ve joined forces with the AA 
to develop a totally new After Sales Service 
Scheme. The result is Lioncare AA, and its aim is 
simple; to keep Peugeot drivers moving. Rather 
reassuring if the unexpected should strike. 

In fact, even if you just run out o f petrol, you can 
call on Lioncare AA to assist, whenever, and 


wherever you might be. 

And in the unlikely event that things can’t be 
put right on the spot, the AA will ensure that 
your Peugeot is transported to a Peugeot Dealer 
of vour choice. Once there, they’ll arrange what- 
ever's neccessary. 

If need be, you'll be offered a hire car free 
for 4S hours or as much as £100* towards the 
cost of your travel. 

Alternatively, you might prefer a free hotel 
for the night. And that applies to whoever's with 


you, even if you’re a family of five. 

Whatever you decide the AA will gladly pass 
on any messages - so no one will have to worry. 

In addition, Lioncare AA means that you auto¬ 
matically become a full AA member, with all the 
extra benefits that go with it. And if, after a year 
you’d like to continue with the Scheme, theyn 
be more than happy to extend it. 

If you want to know more, just ring Free¬ 
phone 0S00 678 800 or even pay your local 
Peugeot Dealer an unexpected call; he'll be ready. 





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Farm incomes rise 
over year but still 
lag 40 % below 1984 


By Michael Hornsby, Agriculture Correspondent 

«t dent of the National Fanners’ states to accept even the ooe- 

tenn« am m 1 ® a * (NFU), said agri- third devaluation of the green 

__ 6 sn “ W DfiT cent nthnrpv Mvmnmir ds4» vac nnimH nmnAuvl R» th* 


ago, ihr S.r” 8 ^ years “stiUdoseto its lowest level in pean Commission as pan of 
closed dis- the post-war period**. He re- this year’s farm price negotia- 

fennr* m lts »™»1 peated calls for a fall devalue- tions in Brussels, 

industry sta!e t* 011 die green pound, tire The Government's report 

■narajort^w «, spe^ exchange rate used m shows that total income fiois 
John EC agricultural trade. fenring amounted to £2,167 

AgricuhmTtFr^iv^r 0, °f The over-valued green rate milh'on in !989, an increase of 
Food, also dis^S^L*^ ^ 38 atax on Britain’s fired 11 per cent on the previous 
numbwof- exports to the rest of the EC year. But, after allowing for 
far ming frfnTr/^K 0yed “ wbfle subsidizing imports. It inflation, the real increase was 
perMBrt. fo idgo twirK 01- also cancels out the increase in only 3 per cent, after a 20 per 
dropfothe EC support prices which Jttnt- cent real decline in 1988. 

oftbedediMW^J?^ ish fermerewould othenroe Interest payments on fermers’ 
dresheSfoerffS-SS?^ E**asansultoftbefellmthe debts came to £949 million, 43 
“IhoISSfLiT 01 * k*our. market rate for the pound- per cent of income, 
show SrSmionsaid: “The Gov- The number of people en- 

immovement in erament*s figures reinforce gaged in agriculture in Britain 

our CTm^gntoBnnsh fern- is now 573,000,12 per cent of 
die preSw^.^2?^ fLiP Replaced on equal the total workforce, compared 
parts rfrtre i22. dadmg tenns with our EC with about 660,000 at the start 

hem competitors.- of the decade/ 

Chnnro sSd!* grcater ’ ** .Tire NFU .concede that a. Mr Gunmret attributed this, 

“The saueew* «„ for™ • ““ c ~ va ^ ua I t ^ n °f die gneen in part, to competition for 

conwThii?hS m r Pound would posh up fired labour ftom oth^redors of 

anlrZJIt, S lgrifi r g nt pneesby about 1 percent, but industry. “If you go back to 
te^Sntwre ! r tl,at ays this most be set against imSis to sS 

*7® dutt there haTb^ tittle 

}S?m2KS? yto f tndof "inch the inflated green rate change in the number of 

will cost feme* idlest rev- 

2 w^LiKjELf%S enireoverafuDyear. happened is that mechanga- 



Jodie, a l&matAM Bkbon Rise, being auditioned at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, by Mr Biftest Jones, assistam director of 
the musical Show Boat. She win make her stage debut this weekend in the company's production, taking the briefest of walk-on parts in the final act. 


Ministers to support poisoned land registers 


, ir ™ muc » vcr a «ui year. happened is that meefcaniza- 

tor"?S eflcct^ftS^ f° Mr Gammer held ont tittle tion and technological 

achieve their a^i t ^ CyTCrct0 of , rehe£ g® sad he changes have greatly reduced 

Sir might have difficulty in the need for hired labour,” he 

Mr Simon Gouriay, presi- persuading other member said. 

Company cars 

Major faces tough 
fight with industry 
over higher taxes 

By Kevin Eason, Motnrfag Correspondent 


By Sheila Gann, Political Reporter 

Ministers are willing to support the setting up by 
local authorities of public registers of poisoned land 
sites. In their response to the report on contami¬ 
nated land by the Commons environment select 
committee they wfll concede the need to build op a 
nationwide profile of poDution black spots. 

Although the Government's official reply will not 
be disclosed for a couple of months, The Times has 
been told that it will support the all-party 


committee's call for local authority registers. They 
would be open for inspection to the pnhtic as part of 
the Government’s policy to extend access to 
information about the environment 

Mr David Trippier, Minister of State for the 
Environment, is holding talks with the Association 
of District Councils to make sore such a register 
does not cast a blight over an area by fireusing 
attention on the havante. He is concerned that 
designating as contaminated old factory sites in, for 


example, a former northern industrial centre could 
discourage economic investment in spite of grants. 
• Wild birds were illegally poisoned on Lord 
Mansfield's Scone estate and the Strathmore estate 
of Lord Chink, it was disclosed by Lord James 
nmighw-Hfliniifan, minister responsible for the 
environment at die Scottish Office, in a par¬ 
liamentary answer yesterday. 

He listed 10 properties in Tayside where pois¬ 
oning incidents occurred in the past three years. 


Tax charges on company cars 
have increased 1,000 per cent 
in less than 10 years, fuelling 
an aggressive campai gn to 
prevent further rues in Mr 
John Major’s Budget next 
month. 

The Chancellor of the Ex¬ 
chequer feces a conceited 
ca m pai g n ftom the motor 
industry over the heavy bur¬ 
den levied on some company 
motorists. 

A survey published yes¬ 
terday shows that tax scale 
charges on anew company car 
unto lfiOOcc have increased 
from just £250 in 1981 to 
£2,450 last year. 

Companies fear an explo¬ 
sion of wage claims from 
disgruntled employees who 
would find it cheaper to run 
their own cars than use conn 
pany fleets. 

Pay claims from many of 
Britain's three million com¬ 
pany car driven would put 
severe pressure on inflation. 

The authoritative Monks 
Guide to Company Car JPoluy 
said that an average employee 
would expect £4*300 a year to 
run a car equivalent to a 
I600cc fleet model over 
20 ,000miles annually. 

The guide says that high 
mileage company car users 
can be penalized much more 
heavily than those _ “perk” 
users who drive their com¬ 
pany transport mainly for 
privat e motoring. Envers 
who travel as many as 10,000 
miles annually might be better 
off r unning their own car on a 
mileage allowance. 

Mr Tony Venwn-Harconrt, 
one of the report’s authors, 
said: “The present tax system 
penalizes die high business 
mileage user unfairly, but is 
still generous to the car user 
with high private and low 
business mileage. 

’The Government needs to 
rethink its policy and relate 
the level of taxation more 
closely to business mileage.” 

The Monks survey of al¬ 
most 200 firms disclosed that 
72 per cent of drivers travel 
10,000 business miles or more 
annually, although 13 per cent 


admitted to travelling fewer 
than 8,000 utiles. 

The tax warning from 
Monks was followed up by 
Sewells Car Digest, the 
information sheet for the mo¬ 
tor industry, which says that 
British masnfactnieis will suf¬ 
fer worst from any further 
increases in scale charges. 
• Jaguar is losing popularity 
with co mpan y rfainnwi to 
Mercedes and BMW, accord¬ 
ing to Monks Guide. 

Although Jaguar is still the 
most popular with top direc¬ 
tors, the report shows a drop 
of 8 per cent in chairmen who 
were Jaguar buyers in 1989. 
Mercedes and BMW went up 
in popularity by 6 and 4 per 
cent respectively. 

Among other directors, Jag¬ 
uar chooser? went down by 5 
percent, with Mercedes up 3 
per cent and BMW 1 percent 

In the senior manager cate¬ 
gory, Font dropped 10 per 
cent, while BMW rose 6 per 
cent and Rover and VanxhaD 
each dropped 1 percent 

The most popular models 
last year (1988 figures in 
brackets): Chairmen —Jaguar, 
37 per cent (45); Rolls-Royce, 
3 per cent (7); Mercedes 14 per 
cent (8); BMW 8 per cent (4). 
Directors — Jaguar, 17 per 
cent (22); Rover 14(15); Ford 
28 (27); Mercedes 10 (7); 
BMW 8 (7). Sales rep¬ 
resentatives — Ford 46 per 
cent (47); VauxhaQ 29 (28); 
Rover 13 (14). 



Mr Major: ffis 
target of tax a 


Footballer’s libel win 

Viv ap*—« wi, the Manchester United and fanner Engteadfoot- 
baiier, won substantial libel damage fathe High Qrartyrate- 
dav over allegations published in die Sunday Mirror of a fight 
o2r a wwS^thJohn Fasbanu, theWimhkdon strite^ 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


CRIME, JUSTICE AND THE PUBLIC 


Making the punishment fit the crime 


S weeping proposals to re¬ 
duce the number of non¬ 
violent offenders sent to 
jail and to ensure that 
prisoners serve a greater 
part of their sentences in custody 
were unveiled in a government 
White Paper yesterday. It prom¬ 
ises the creatkm of a comprehen¬ 
sive sentencing framework for 
Britain's courts. 

The While Paper, seen by 

mmisten and critics as the boldest 
criminal justice initiative for a 
generation, proposes the creation 
of a sentencing “culture”; more 
offenders would be punished in 
the community and only murder¬ 
ers, sex offenders and drugs 

traffickers would be sent to prison. 

However, under the “twin- 
track” policy devised by the Home 
Office, offender, convicted of the 

most serious offences can expea 
suffer punishment and, along with 
short-sentence criminals, closer 
supervision after they are released 


from jail Courts will, for example, 
be empowered to im pose un¬ 
usually long prison terms on 
persistent violent offenders. 

The prize underlying the strat¬ 
egy, die paper suggests, is the 

creation of a more just and 
effective sentencing structure. 
Ministers betieve that die huge 
problem of criminals reoffending 
is, in part, encouraged by inappro¬ 
priate custody. About 45 per cent 
of all people jailed are reconvicted 
within two years of gaining their 
freedom. The rare rises to 80 per 
cent for some young offenders. 

Ministers also hope the moves 
will cut the jail population, which 
at more than 47,000, is one of the 
largest in absolute and propor¬ 
tionate terms in Western Europe 
However, the White Paper, whose 
proposed shake-up of early release 
rules for inmates would tend to 
increase the population, makes no 
predictions. 

The prop osals also build on the 


Government’s long-standing com¬ 
mitment to increasing parental 
responsibility— the focus being on 
parents of ddin q qgn children. 

Mr David Waddingion, the 
Home Secretary, hopes to in¬ 
troduce the package m a “flag¬ 
ship" government -'Bill this 
autumn or early next spring. 

The White Paper rejects man¬ 
datory sea tencit^ rules as inimical 
to foe constitutional principle of 
judicial independence. It also 
dismisses foe idea of a sentencing 
council, comprising lay and ju¬ 
dicial members, which has the 
support of foe Labour Party, penal 
reformers and a growing cross- 
section of legal opinion. 


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Reports by 
Quentin Cowdry 


punishments directly to the sever- 
ity of offences. 


Instead, the paper says Par¬ 
liament should set sentencing 
golddinos which would force 
judges and magistrates to be more 
wary of imposing custody when 
dealing with all but foe most 
serious offenders and to relate 


The White Paper says: “The 
aim of the Government's pro¬ 
posals is better justice through a 
more consistent approach to 
sentencing, so that convicted 
criminals get their ‘just desserts’. 

“The legislation will be in 
general terms. It is not foe 
Government's intention that Par¬ 
liament should bind the courts 
with stria legislative guide¬ 
lines_The courts will property 

continue to have foe wale dis¬ 
cretion they need if they are to 
deal justly with foe great variety of 
crimes which come before them.” 

The Government says foe first 


objective of all sentences should 
be denunciation of and retribution 
for foe crime. Depending on foe 
offence and the offender, the 
sentence may also aim to achieve 
reparation, public protection and 
reform of foe offender. Deter¬ 
rence, a principle with peat 
“immediate appeal”, is a less 
certain component as, foe paper 
says, much crime is committed ou 
impulse by people who “live from 
moment to moment”. 

Sending criminals to prison foils 
to satisfy these aims in the vast 
majority of cases. Whatever 
efforts have been made to im¬ 
prove regimes in Britain's over¬ 
crowded jails, the paper says, 
prison remains a specious “soci¬ 
ety” where people are isolated 
from normal routines and duties 
and where foe opportunity to 
learn from other criminals is 


pervasive. 

It concludes: “The prospects of 
reforming offenders are usually 


much better if they stay in the 
community, provided foe public is 
properly protected.” 

The White Paper also envisages 
ra d ical changes in rules governing 
the early release of prisoners. 
Many of those sentenced for over 
a year would spend longer m 
prison than they do now, with no 
convicts being allowed out before 
they have served half their sen¬ 
tence. All prisoners jailed for a 
year or more would be subject to 
compulsory supervision by proba¬ 
tion officers and offenders risk 
incurring longer sentences if they 
commit new indictable offences 
before foe expiry of foe original 
term. 

Pointing out that burglaries and 
thefts account fra well over 70 per 
cent of recorded crime, and vi¬ 
olent crimes represent less than 6 
percent, the Government says the 
courts should make for greater use 
of non-custodial sentences. 

To encourage courts to do so, 


community punishments such as 
probation and community service 
would be made tougher, and 
courts would be empowered to 
draw up, with the probation 
service, “cocktails” of orders tai¬ 
lored to suit the needs of individ¬ 
ual offenders. Probation would 
become a sentence rather than an 
order, enabling courts to combine 
compulsory supervirion of offend¬ 
ers with lines. 

Courts would also be given the 
power to impose curfews on 
offenders, either as a sentence in 
its own right or as part of a 
package of non-custodial 

punishments. 

These might be enforced by 
electronic monitoring or tagging, 
depending on the outcome of 
trials now being conducted at two 
magistrates’ courts to test foe 
viability of the technology. 

Crime. Justice, and 
the Public (Cnund r 
£6J20). 


Taking pressure 
off the prisons 


Under foe new sentencing 
regime, judges and 
istraies would have to exam¬ 
ine rigorously their motives 
for jaifing criminals for all but 
foe most serious offences, 
although they would be able to 
impose exceptionally severe 
laison terms ou persistent 
violent and sexual offenders. 

Inoneofthe White ftpert 
most crucial proposals, the 
Government ini™* to ex¬ 
tend st at u to r y guidelines for 
s entenc in g young offenders to 
cover aff offences triable sum¬ 
marily in m ttfl i i U r a tes* or 


crown courts. These make up 
foe vast bulk of court hearings. 

Before imposin g a prison 
sentence, a court would have 
lo be satisfied that the offence 
was either so serious that only 
custody was justified or that 
foe offender bad to be locked 
away to protea the public 
from serious harm- The rea¬ 
sons would have to be ex¬ 
plained to theofifender in open 
court 

The White Paper suggests 
should ask them¬ 


selves a series of questions 
when considering how to pun¬ 
ish offenders. These include: 
How serious is foe offence? 
WiB financial penalties be 
adequate? If not, how much 
restraint on liberty is needed 
to punish the crime? Is 
community service, probation 
or another penalty most suit¬ 
able for this offender? 

If the legislatkm is passed, 
ministers hope foe Judicial 
Studies Board will arrange 
training courses on the new 
policy fra judges and mag¬ 
istrates. It also hopes the 
Court of Appeal win assist by 
giving guidance in test cases. • 

A new type of social inquiry 
report by probation officers 
would reinforce foe drive to 
reduce foe use of custody fra 
all but foe worst criminal 


These reports would indude 
detailed information about 
alternative punishments, 
background information on 
foe offender, and a suggested 
programme of non-custodial 
punishment. 

The Government wants to 

main- co u rt s distinguish mnr e 


sharply between violent and 
non-violent offenders by cat¬ 
ting some maximum 
far property crimes and giving 
sentence!* new powers over 
the worst criminals. 

Courts could, however, dis¬ 
regard foe sentencing guide¬ 
lines and impose longer prison 
terms fra violent or sexual 
offenders. 

The White Paper explains: 
“An assault causing actual 
bodily harm might be serious 
enough to justify a sentence of 
12 months, but the cro w n 
court could give a longer 
sentence, up to five years, if it 
considered this necessary to 
protect the public from foe 
risk of serious harm from the 
offender”. 

As part of foe policy the 
Government would reduce 
foe maximum penalty for 
theft from 10 to seven years 
»nd cut the maximum sen¬ 
tence for non-domestic bur¬ 
glaries from 14 to 10 years. 

A big reduction is pbimad 
in die use of suspended sen¬ 
tences which ministers believe 
are often too soft and may 
undermine the credibility of 
the courts. 

- Parity suspended sentences 
would be abolished and courts 
would be urged to use fully 
suspended ones only fox 
offenders aged over 21 con¬ 
victed of serious offences. 

“Many offenders see a sus¬ 
pended sentence as being ‘let 
off, since it places no restric¬ 
tions other than the obligation 
not to offend again " the paper 
says. Suspended sentences 
would, in future, be combined 
with compen s ation or fines to 
stop that impression. 

The White Paper con¬ 
fidently asserts: “The new legi¬ 
slative provisions, the maxi¬ 
mum penalties for each 
offence, the guidance from the 
Court of Appeal and the Attor¬ 
ney General's new power to 
refer over-lenient sentences 
for very serious offenders to 
the Court of Appeal, should aD 
contribute to foe development 
of coherent sentencing 
practice.” 



Toughening up 
the ‘soft option’ 

El 


Proposals fra courts to be em¬ 
powered to use non-custodial 
sanctions more flexibly and to 
devise “cocktails” of tailor- 
made punishments for offen¬ 
ders are included in foe White 
Paper’s section on punish¬ 
ment in foe community. 

The idea is to toughen 
community penalties — sen¬ 
tences stiff seen as soft options 
by some magistrates and 
judges — wi thin the overall 
policy of establishing a more 
sensitively graduated and app¬ 
lied sentencing regime. There 
would be a wide range of 
alternatives, which could be 
used with considerable flexi¬ 
bility and linked with finan¬ 
cial penalties, particularly 
compensation to foe victim. 

The main option for adults 
would be a probation order; a 
probation order with “strings” 
such as attendance at a day 
centre; community service of 
between 40 and 240 hours; 
and a combined order linking 
community service and pro¬ 
bation. In addition, there 
would be a new curfew order— 
possibly enforced by elec¬ 
tronic monitoring or tagging— 


offenders, to reduce foe likeli¬ 
hood of further offending.” 

The order is seen as particu¬ 
larly suitable for some persis¬ 
tent property offenders. About 
10,000of those in custody and 
sentenced for burglary, theft, 
fraud, forgery and handling 
stolen goods, have three or 
more previous convictions. 

The Government believes 
courts would also substan¬ 
tially increase use of fines, a 
penalty whose use has de¬ 
clined in recent years, if the 
penalties were strictly means- 
related. 

The principle that different 
financial penalties can pro¬ 
vide the same p unishmen t for 

offenders of different means, 
is foe foundation of “day fine” 
systems in West Germany and 
Sweden. At its simplest the 
theory is that foe court has 
details of the offender's daily 
income, and his punishment is 
that he should lose a specified 
number of days* income. 

Magistrates, sceptical at the 


Anested: The Government's new White Paper should provide foe courts with* more precise framework do punish offenders. 


__ start of experiments with this 
which could be used by itself system in Britain, soon came 
or with other orders. to take a positive view. Setting 

“Sentencers would be able feirer fine levels should lead to 


More time spent behind bars 


Parental 
role to 
the fore 


CHILDREN 


parental responsibility and 
discipline are foe keynotes of 
the White Paper’s attitude to 
young offenders. 

In particular, the power of 
courts to impose curfews on 
young offenders is to be 
increased so that parents will 
be obliged by the courts to 
know where their teenage 
children go in the evenings. 

It argues that young people 
who are free to come and go as 
they please at all hours are 
exposed to greater tempta¬ 
tions and are at greater ride of 
getting into trouble. 

The White Paper stales 
explicitly: “Crime prevention 
begins in the home.” To 
reinforce parental respon¬ 


sibility foe Government pro¬ 
poses legislation to force 
parents to attend court when 
their children are charged with 
criminal offences. 

It will also make parents 
liable for fines imposed upon 
their children and the fines on 
juveniles will reflea their 
parents* income. 

To make sure that teenagers 
in local authority care are kept 
on a tighter rein, councils are 
to be made responsible in the 
same way as parents. 

The White Paper says: 
“When effective family con¬ 
trol is lacking, children are 
more likely to grow up with¬ 
out self-discipline and a sense 
of concern for others. They are 
more likely to commit 
crimes.” When a child has run 
out of control of its parents the 
courts will request foe soda] 
services to advise and guide 
the parents. 


A vastly reduced parole sjs- 

tem and the automatic release 
of offen de r s u n priaw i n cd far 
less than four yean after they 
have served half their sen¬ 
tences are proposed in foe 
White Paper’s section on eariy 
release rules. 

Proposing the biggest 
c hanges to foe rules since 
parole was Introduced in 1968, 
t he W hite Paper says present 
arrange m en t s undermine the 
credibility of sentences and do 
not contribute enough to curb 
foe problem of reoffending. 

At present, many prisoners 
are released after serving a 
third of their sentence, while, 
because of remission, even 
those refused parole are re¬ 
leased — subject to days lost 
through bad behaviour —after 
serving two-thirds of their 
terms. 

Even worse, the Govern¬ 
ment says, those gaining re¬ 
mission are released un¬ 
conditionally. U nKhB lifers, 
there is no compulsory super¬ 
vision on release and no extra 
liability for those who reolfcad 
shortly after ganring their 
freedom. 

In addition, the system cre¬ 
ates anomalies 

far short-sentence offenders, 
naay of whom may be re¬ 
leased on or about foe same 
day in spi te of re ce i vi ng differ¬ 
ing prison term. 

The proposals, based on 
recommendations by Lord 
Carlisle of Backknv in a 
government-com missioned 
atady on parole in 1988, aim to 
remove the anomalies, which 
hare angered sentencers as 
mach as prisoners, and to 
the effect of sent- 








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introduced in 1968, 


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years, though eligibility will 
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half their terms rather than a 
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. More time spent inside, and more supervision on release: 
increasingly prisoners arc convicted of violence or sex crimes. 


or drugs trafficking, will be 
scrapped. Ministers say it is 
illogical and dangerous that 
some of foe worst criminals 
should eventually be freed 
with no obligation to receive 
supervision. 

Criminals imprisoned far 
four years or less will be 
released automatically after 
serving half their terms, but 
those who mis behave while in 
jail may be detained a little 
longer. 

In one of the biggest 
changes, all prisoners, except 
adults jailed for under a year, 
will be subject to mandatory 
supervision on release by 
probation officers. Super- 
vis km will last until the three- 
quarters point of the sentence, 
whether inmates are paroled 
or freed under the automatic 
release scheme for short-sen¬ 
tence offenders. 

In addition, a released pris¬ 
oner convicted of a new indict¬ 
able offence before the end of 
bis original sentence could be 
ordered by the court to serve 
part or all of the nnexpired 
portion of foe sentence In 
addition to any further cus¬ 
todial punishment. 

The changes would also 
entail the winding up of foe 
120 or so local review commit¬ 
tees wbkfa comprise the lower 
tier of (he parole decision¬ 
making process. 

Decisions on inmates serv¬ 
ing more than four years would 
be made by the existing second 
tier, the Parole Board, which 
would handle some 4^00 
cases annually. 

The White Paper, however, 
rejects Lord Carlisle's recom¬ 
mendation that foe Home 
Secretary should lose his 
responsibility for all individ¬ 
ual parole decisions. 


to select the precise form of 
punishment in the commu¬ 
nity best suited to each of¬ 
fender, relating the severity of 
foe punishment to the serious¬ 
ness of the offence,” the White 
Paper says. 

However, in establishing 
the precise punishment courts 
would be obliged to pay care¬ 
ful consideration to foe nature 
of the offence and the offen¬ 
der’s background. 

Fines would be used in 
isolation for the least harmful 
offenders, while community 
service, which is generally 
more restrictive and expen¬ 
sive t h an other non-custodial 
sentences, would be used for 
more serious criminals such as 
recidivist thieves and 
burglars. 

Under the new “combina¬ 
tion order” offenders would 
perform community work 
while under the supervision of 
a probation officer and subject 
to any extra requirements. 

The paper says: “It would 
enable the courts to introduce 
an clement of reparation but, 
at the same time, to provide 
the probation service with an 
opportunity to work with 


increased use of fines and less 
difficulty enforcing them. 

The Government proposes 
to provide a legislative frame¬ 
work fra “unit fines” includ¬ 
ing a requirement for defend¬ 
ants to provide courts with in¬ 
formation about their means. 

The magistrates’ courts, 
which are responsible for 
enforcing the collection of 
fines, have been asked to 
review their methods. In 
particular, since it regards the 
attachment of earnings as a 
valuable method of enforcing 
fines it is considering legisla¬ 
tion to extend it to the 
attachment of state benefits. 

More offenders with sub¬ 
stantial means are coming 
before the courts. In cases 
where a company ignores 
pollution controls or safety 
precautions the courts should 
have the power to fine accord¬ 
ing to foe offender's mian^ 
foe paper adds. 

The normal maximum fine 
of £2,000 available to mag¬ 
istrates’ courts is too low for 
people who flout laws that 
protect foe public. In forth¬ 
coming legislation the maxi¬ 
mum penalty will be £20,000 
plus imprisonment, 


GOVERNMENT OBJECTIVES 

The White Paper’s main proposals are: 


tegktebve sentencing 
framework which discourages the use of prison for afi bat 
me most serious offences and encourac 
to match punishment more closely to < 


• a reduction in the maximum penalties for theft and 
some burglaries; 


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Policy might backfire ‘if court 



S trong fears were 
voiced last night that 
the Government's 
policy might backfire 
if sentencers foiled to 
impose the new community- 
based penalties. The White 
Paper nonetheless won wide- 
ranging support from groups 
throughout the criminal jus¬ 
tice system who backed foe 
shift away from custodial 
sentences. 

However, reform gro up s 
ranging from the Prison Re¬ 
form Trust to the partly 
government-funded National 
Association for the Care and 
Resettfemeot of Offenders 
said yet more radical steps 
were needed to reduce foe 
courts' use of custody. 


They estimated that the 
effect of the parole and re¬ 
mission changes would in¬ 
crease the population in 
Britain's jails, already severely 
overcrowded, tv some 4,000. 
Sentencers would have to 
react with enormous enthu¬ 
siasm to “punishment in the 
community” for the policy not 
to backfire. 


“The proposed statutory 
criteria for prison sentences 
are a useful advance. But they 
should be reinforced by a 
sentencing council which 
would issue detailed gntdsmry 
designed to scale down the use 
of prison,” Miss Vivien Stan, 
the association's director, 
said. 

The Criminal Bar Associ¬ 


ation said that foe Govern¬ 
ment must provide adequate 
resources if the judiciary was 
to be persuaded to use alter¬ 
natives to custody. 

Mr Nicholas Purnell, QC, 
its chairman, said that the 
Government’s overall philos¬ 
ophy was to be welcomed. 

However, Mr Purnell, who 
himself sirs as a Crown Court 
recorder, said that there was 
no way foe courts would treat 
alternatives to custody with 
seriousness unless they could 
be satisfied “that these are 


new penalties’ 


REACTION TO THE PROPOSALS 


By Frances Gibb 
Legal Affairs Correspondent 


genuicely not soft options; 
that they are a really effective 
punishment”. 

Central to the successful 
working of foe plans was some 
preckanism. suk± s$ a sentenc¬ 
ing commission, by which 
judges, recorders and mag- 


is'uotes could be given foe 
information about foe local 
alternatives to custody. 

Mr Stephen Ridley, sec¬ 
retary of foe Law Society’s 
criminal law committee, also 
broadly endorsed the pro¬ 
posals, although he said there 


would need to be “a good deal 
of judicial education”. 

However, the Law Society 
did not approve of proposals 
for electronic tagging of 
offenders. “These have not in 
our view been shown to have 
worked for remand prisoners 
and we do not think they will 
work if extended to convicted 
prisoners,” Mr Ridley said. 

He also expressed concent 
about the role of the probation 
service under the White Paper 
proposals. “Their co-opera¬ 
tion and goodwill is essential 


4 Any measures which will result in moving us from the top of 
the league table of people sent to prison must be welcome.- 9 


if these alternatives to custody 
are to work." 

Mr Stephen Shaw, director 
of the Prison Reform Trust, 
said experience had shown 
that persuasion did not work 
when it came to getting judges 
and magistrates to reduce 
foe it use of custody. 

The National Association of 
Probation Officers de¬ 
nounced the package as 
“flawed and contradictory”. 
Mr Hany Fletcher, the assocU 
ation s assistant general sec* 
reuuy, said: “The Govern¬ 
ment is inspired by its belief in 
foe need to appeal to the 
public's wish for retrib u t i on 
and revenge, rather than the 
reform and rehabilitation of 
offenders”. 


Magistrates wifl “do their 
level best” to mala* the pro¬ 
posals fra more noncustodial 
Penalties work, Mr John 
Hoskfag, eftadnnan of foe 
Mjpsftstes* Association, said. 

"6 are substantially is 
vour of foe whole tenor of 
them.” 

The Justices’ data’ Society 
also welcomed the “aims and 
objectives " of foe proposal. 
Mr Mi chad Guy, of the 
society’s criminal law com- 
mitiec, said be hoped there 
be adequte funding 
from the Government far the 
Probation service to^gh* 
courts confidence in the 
alternatives at their disposal”. 
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From Mary Dejevsfcy 
Moscow 

Full reports in Pravda yes¬ 
terday of the first submissions 
from the floor at the crisis 
Central Committee meeting of 
the Soviet Communist Party 
here have underscored the 
depth of division wi thin the 
leadership and the bitter criti¬ 
cism of President Gorbachov 
from both the reformist and 
conservative wings. 

Among the most outspoken 
delegates was Mr Vladimir 
Brovikov, the Soviet Ambas¬ 
sador to Poland, who called 
for Resident Gorbachov’s 
resignation over policies that 
he said had brought the Soviet 
Union to the brink of chaos. 

The envoy declared: "Our 
tragedy is that we cannot 
abandon a single man's power 


in state and the party. We nm 
thing s pn impulse, incom¬ 
petently, without far-sight¬ 
edness and caring not so much 
about the mood of the mother¬ 
land but about other, maybe 
more personal, ambitions.” 

Mr Gorbachov’s suggestion 
that the post of Stale President 
should become more wide- 
ranging and powerful received 
a mixed response from the 
Central Committee. 

The only speaker to endorse 
his idea of a post with suf¬ 
ficient powers to push through 
controversial reforms, if nec¬ 
essary in the free of oppo¬ 
sition from the party estab¬ 
lishment, was the chairman of 
the state committee on edu¬ 
cation, Mr G. Yagodin. He 
emphasized that a collective 
leadership was fine so long as 


it did not result in a collective 
sense of irresponsibiliTy. 

A president, he said, should 
be someone who would take 
upon himself responsibility 
for the future of the country 
and for its present. "Of course, 
he ought to be elected by 
universal, direct and secret 
ballot, but probably that time 
has not yet come." 

Until a new constitution 
was enacted, he said, the 
President could be elected by 
the Congress of People’s Dep¬ 
uties, but a new constitution 
should stipulate the term of 
office a President should serve 
and mechanisms for monitor¬ 
ing his work. 

Vagueness and indecision 
in the party policy platform 
introduced by Mr Gorbachov 
on Monday were charges lev¬ 


elled by both wings of the 
party hierarchy. 

For the reformists, Mr Boris 
Yehsm said he had gained the 
-impression that the platform 
had been written by one left 
hand and one right, and there 
had been a “constant attempt 

Peking (Reuter) - President 
Gorbacbor’s talk of a possible 
ndti-party system in the 
Soviet Union went ramparted 
by China's state-controlled 
media yesterday, hot it erased 
a stir amOBg Chinese who 
heard the news on foreign 
radio stations tike the Voice of 
America, the BBC and even 
Radio Moscow. _ 

to reconcile the two, with 
concessions first to one side 
and then to the other”. like 


many speakers, he com¬ 
plained of a tendency to use 
slogans as a substitute for 
policies. 

After blaming the com¬ 
mittee for reducing tens of 
millions of people to destitu¬ 
tion, he outlined a 10-point 
programme, including: the 
abolition of the party’s sacred 
principle of democratic cen¬ 
tralism; provision for dissent 
within the party; the abolition 
of the party apparatus — the 
bureaucracy through which it 
roles; the dropping of Article 6 
of the Constitution, guar¬ 
anteeing the party's monopoly 
on power, and — possibly his 
most radical proposal — the 
subordination of the party 
leadership lo the elected Con¬ 
gress of People’s Deputies. 

A regional party secretary 


from Leningrad, Mr Yuri 
Arkhipov, said that rank-and- 
file members were leaving the 
party, sensing that it had no 
future. In the past few months, 
the Leningrad party bad re¬ 
ceived no applications for 
membership. 

The party’s last hope, he 
argued, was to come out 
clearly in favour of a multi- 
party system, caned Article 6, 
and adopt all the recom¬ 
mendations of the ’’demo¬ 
cratic platform” - the inner 
party faction established last 
month — on democratizing 
the party. 

He warned of an imminent 
split in the party, he noted 
such recommendations had 
been made before, and 
pleaded: “Mikhail Sergeye¬ 
vich (Gorbachov), do we 


really have to go into oppo¬ 
sition before.the voice of 
Communists is heard: He 
warned of the imminent dan¬ 
ger of an open split within the 
party. 

Mr Yuri Prokofyev, the 
Moscow city first secretary, 
who is regarded as a reformist, 
said that a multi-party system 
was effectively in existence, 
and queried confusing “half- 
measures” in the policy plat¬ 
form. “What does a slogan like 
‘for an effective planned-mar¬ 
ket economy’ mean?” 

Some of the most pas¬ 
sionate contributions came 
from the other side of the 
argument, however. Mr Val¬ 
entin Mesyais, first secretary 
of the Moscow region, said 
that indecision and con¬ 
cessions made by the leader- 


eefing 

ship were continuing to 
weaken the party’s position. 
The rise of unofficial and 
popular front groups had been 
tolerated to the point where 
the party was in danger of 
relegation to the “political 
margin”. 

Like several other conser¬ 
vatives, be condemned the 

proposal that foe party should 
have to compete and negotiate 
with other groups. It had a 
special history and place in. 
Soviet society and could not 
just abandon its leading role 
like that. If it reduced itself to 
the level of other groups, it 
would be quite unable to 
restore its authority. 

Mr Mesyais attacked those 
who "carried a party card in 
their pocket but made speech¬ 
es against the party line". 




Privatized break-out from 

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Ceaiisescu’s economic jail 

From Christopher Walker, Bucharest 


Post-revolutionary Romania 
yesterday took the first cau¬ 
tious step to break out of the 
economic straftjacket im¬ 
posed by the Ceausescu 
dictatorship with the publica¬ 
tion of a decree legalizing 
limited privatization of in¬ 
dustry for the first time in 
more than 40 years. 

Under the complex law 
signed by the interim Presi¬ 
dent, Mr Ion Itiescu, a former 
leading member of the now 
defunct Co mmunist Party, 
private firms employing a 

matimiiTn of 20 wbriwl 

employees may now be estab¬ 
lished as well as “associ¬ 
ations” or co-operatives 
comprising a maximum of 10 
individuals or members of a 

single famil y 

The extreme caution of the 
measures reflects the divisions 
in the country about the extent 
to which private capital 
should be permitted to take 
over state enterprises, most of 
which suffer from gross mis- 
management 

The ruling National Salva¬ 
tion Front has seamed over¬ 
whelming support from the 
working class because of its 
opposition to any widescale 
privatization or the creation 
of what is described by of¬ 
ficials as a “boss class”. The 
workers fear that such moves 
would lead to big lay-offs. 

Foreign experts aware of 
Romania’s grave economic 
problems said that the law, 
although politically controver¬ 
sial, was not on a sufficient 
scale to rectify the clumsy 
moves made under Ceausescu 
to transform an essentially 
agricultural nation into one 
dominated by large-scale 
heavy industries. 

One European economist 


said: “As with the introduc¬ 
tion of co-operatives in the 
Soviet Union under Gorba¬ 
chov, this new law is likely to 
affect mainly the service in¬ 
dustries. It may lead to the 
setting up of some restaurants, 
cafes and small shops, but 
even they are going to race the 
problem of securing supplies 
on a centrally controlled 
market” 

The argument over privati¬ 
zation has emerged as the 
issue which will dominate 
campaigning for the May 20 



Mrs Doina Cornea: Seeking 
radical privatization, 
general election. Many of the 
29 opposition parties are 
pushing for privatization on a 
much wider scale, and the 
largest, the National Feasants 
Party, is fighting to be allowed 
to bring in Western capitaL 
Among the leading figures 
supporting privatization is 
Mrs Doina Cornea, the dis¬ 
sident who resigned from the 
Front because of its failure to 
abandon old style communist 
methods and personneL 
“Industry and agriculture 
would be rendered more 
profitable on the basis of 


private property” she stated, 
“and such reforms should be 
radical in nature.” 

Mrs Cornea, who was given 
prime time on Romanian 
television recently to develop 
her views, supports the leasing 
rather than dosing down of 
foe country’s many unprofit¬ 
able enterprises. 

“I think they would be 
b ett e r leased on a contract, 
basis.over a definite period Of 
five up to 10 years to foreign 
firms that want to invest 
capital «nd modernize them.” 

A visit to any large Roma¬ 
nian factory reveals strong 
opposition to any such moves 
from workers convinced that 
their jobs would be on foe line. 

Mr Ion Neascu, a fitter at 
Bucharest's vast August 23 
plant which malmi tfimw, 
rolling stock and underground 
carriages, said: “We do not 
want basses coming here from 
abroad and throwing us oat of 
work. We have our families to 
feed.” 

Workers from foe plant,' 
which was Ceausescu’s fa¬ 
vourite and thrived on a 
totally fictitious set of produo 
lion figures now being ex¬ 
posed to foe public, were 
prominent in last week’s mass 
demonstrations in support of 
the Front Many mobbed the 
headquarters of the National 
Feasants Party because of its 
campaign to bring in foreign 
capitaL 

Although leaden of the 
Front are against what Mr 
Iliescu has dismissed scath¬ 
ingly as “global privatiza¬ 
tion” so for they have put 
forward little in the way of 
alternatives beyond maintain¬ 
ing existing inefficient Stalin¬ 
ist structures for running a 
centralized economy. Even 


talk of Soviet-style perestroika 
is limited. 

Because the country was 
dominated until recently by 
agriculture tit was once Eu¬ 
rope’s biggest sheep producer 
after Britain), the workforce 
has no industrial traditions 
and its products are shoddy. 

Many factories are running 
severely below capacity bec¬ 
ause of a lack of raw materials 
and others have been hit by 
the post-revolutionary in¬ 
troduction of a five-day week 
as opposed to a seven-day one. 
The interim Government’s 
short-term, emergency mea¬ 
sures to divert supplies ear¬ 
marked for export back on to 
the home market have begun 
to wear thin. At the weekend, 
queues of more than 300 
people could be counted out¬ 
side an 31-lit store in foe centre 
of the capital jostling fin- 
unpalatable frozen fish. 

Prior to yesterday’s limited 
introduction of private enter¬ 
prise, an earlier decree was 
published which staled that 
peasant fanners were to be 
allowed to sell produce on foe 
free market and to own up to 
I % acres of land each. Oppo¬ 
sition parties had argued that 
those measures were for too 
limited to cope with the 
present crisis. 

The Front’s watchword of 
caution was supported in an 
article on foe pros and cons of 
privatization published by the 
official Rompres news agency. 

“Immediate and hasty sol¬ 
utions cannot be forced,” it 
said. “The future of economic 
and political life in Romania 
must be carefully thought out 
Let us not forget that four 
republics were tested in 
France before reaching today’s 
which seems the right one.” 



offer to 
cut back 


Malnutrition blamed for plight of Romania’s children 


From Christopher Walker 
Bucharest 

Eighteen-month-old Mircea Ban- 
isor, seriously underweight and 
with the mental age of seven 
months despite being of sound 
mind, is part of one of foe most 
shocking legacies of the Ceausescu 
tyranny in foe malnutrition unit of 
Bucharest's August 23 Hospital. 

Like over half the SO children in 
foe unit, aged between three 
months and two years, Mircea was 
abandoned by his parents. They 
have not yet responded to post- 
revolutionary television advertise¬ 
ments urging parents to collect 
their children, and according to the 
nurses are never likely to do so. 

“He is refolded simply because 
of lack of stimulation. Until you 
arrived, he has probably never seen 
a man because the staff here are all 
women. He has never bees in the 
fresh air, which is why he is so pale, 
and he has nowhere to play,” 
explained Dr Sanda Gance via, the 
chief paediatrician. “His life is 
spent in his cot from morning to 
ni gh t as we have no other facil¬ 
ities.” Although Romania’s or¬ 


phans have received widespread 
publicity and haw been foe subject 
of a deluge of adoption inquiries, 
the plight of its abandoned, mal¬ 
nourished children is in many ways 
even more tragic, as for legal 
reasons they often cannot be easily 
adopted. 

Malnutrition has been blamed as 
one of the main causes of the 
children's Aids epidemic now 

6 Gas is one of our 
main problems 
because without it we 
cannot boil milk £ 

sweeping the country and pre¬ 
viously covered up by Ceausescu as 
the virus was commonly spread by 
blood transfusions used by Roma¬ 
nian doctors to help underweight 
babies. 

“These malnourished children 
arc not orphans as such; they are 
usually brought here by parents 
who cannot cope or are referred 
from other hospitals,” Dr 


Gancevid said. “At the age of two 
they will go to a childrens' home, 
then a pre-school home from three 
to six, and then a further institu¬ 
tion from 10 until 18.” 

The doctor blamed Ceausescu’s 
ban on abortions, as well as 
appalling economic conditions in a 
country bled dry to pay off foreign 
debts, as the cause of most of the 
cases in her care. 

“This is not a problem that is 
going to disappear overnight 
because of the revolution, but in 
foe future it should slowly im¬ 
prove,” she said. 

When Mircea first entered the 
hospital on January 17, 1989. he 
was graded as suffering from 
second-degree malnutrition and 
weighed only 9.91b. Today he 
weighs 18.7 lb instead of his de¬ 
sired weight of 23 ib and looks 
almost chubby in contrast to other, 
even less fortunate children in the 
unit 

Since the revolution led to a 
reversal of Ceausescu’s fanatical 
population policy, television 
advcrtismenls have been urging 
Romanians to adopt the thousands 


of orphans which his measures 
produced. 

“After that, many people came 
to this hospital, but wc had to turn 
them away ” the doctor said. “We 
had to tell them: ‘First find the 
parents and get their permission. 
We cannot do it because we do not 
have the staff.” 

Occasionally nurses break strict 
bureaucratic rules not jet revised 
since the demise of communism 
and illegally give would-be foster 
parents addr esses of the parents of 
the malnourished children. 

The undernourishment is 
blamed chiefly on lack of essential 
foods, such as milk and rice, plus 
poor hygiene, lack of vitamins and 
recurring diseases caused by the 
lack of disposable syringes. It was 
not until December 28 when the 
first aid truck arrived from France 
that the hospital bad seen dis¬ 
posable needles, but its stock is 
nearly exhausted already. 

The extent of the problem was 
revealed by statistics compiled last 
year in the capital’s third district, 
where the bospital is situated. 
These showed that of all the 


children up to one year old who 
died in 1989. 61.2 were suffering 
from malnutrition; 10.2 per cent 
had rickets; 30.6 per cent were 
anaemic and 26.5 per cent had 
congenital deformities. 

“We do not have foe compar¬ 
ative statistics, but wc are certain 
that the malnutrition here is worse 
than in most, if not all European 
cities,” said the hospital’s director, 

Many people came 
to this hospital, 
but we had to 
turn them away ^ 

Dr Argli ir Popcscu. “Under 
CCamcscu. the problem, like most 
others connected with health, was 
covered up.” 

Until the revolution, gas pres¬ 
sure was so low that the hospital's 
kitchen staff regularly had lo work 
through the night, the only time it 
was high enough to prepare food. 
Even now, after the boost given by 
foe provisional Government to gas 


supplies, it is still occasionally too 
low for food to be properly 
prepared. 

“Gas is one of our main prob¬ 
lems because without ii we cannot 
boil milk, which is vital as we have 
no powdered milk supplies. Also 
we are unable to wash the nappies 
in hot water.” said Dr Gancevici, 
showing us a steaming, antiquated 
wash-house run by two elderly 
women. 

As a result of the television 
appeals. 10 parents have so far 
come forward to collect their 
children from the hospital, now 
confident that economic con¬ 
ditions will improve enough to 
enable them to care for them. But 
despite the end of the ban on 
abortions, others continue to ar¬ 
rive. 

There arc still hundreds, prob¬ 
ably thousands, of malnourished 
children and others who have 
parents unwilling to cope with 
them, said Dr Popescu. “It may be 
years before this problem is solved 
and supplies of vital foods and 
medicine arc adequate to eradicate 
malnutrition os a problem.” 


Timisoara is still coming to terms with the cost of its liberty 

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From Philip Jacobson 
Timisoara 

Hundreds of small candles 
flutter day and night outside 
the imposing cathedral in 
Timisoara as the city con¬ 
tinues to mourn its heroes. 
Fresh flowers and elaborate 
wreaths still appear cn the 
spot where demonstrators 
were killed when troops fired 
into an unarmed crowd one 
week before Christmas. 

As the banners now 
welcoming visitors to “the 
first free city of Romania” 
make clear, there is fierce local 
pride that this is where the 
uprising against foe Ceausescu 
regime began. 

Without the innocent blood 
shed here on December 17, 
people tell you over and again, 
who knows how things might 
have turned out? 

What bitter irony, then, that 


almost two months on an 
emotive dispute about the true 
number of people who were 
shot down here in the cause of 
liberty still greatly impairs 
people in coming to terms 
with the extraordinary events 
they have just lived through. 

According to Dr Milan 
Leonard Dressier, who super¬ 
vised the official post-mortem 
examination on all victims of 
foe massacre taken to the 
morgue in the city's biggest 
hospital. Timisoara has been 
suffering from a “collective 
psychosis”. 

While the vast majority of 
people now accept that early 
estimates of 4.000 dead were 
wildly exaggerated, a wide¬ 
spread feeling persists foal 
they still have not been told 
the whole truth. 

Dr Dressier now believes 
that the real figure was doscr 


to 100 dead, certainly not 
more than ISO. 

Dr Dressier - who is also a 
qualified lawyer — told how 
the corpses lad started arriv¬ 
ing at the hospital still bleed¬ 
ing from bullet wounds. 
Several young men in army 
uniform appeared to have 
been killed with single shots 
behind foe car. lending cre¬ 
dence to reports of summary 
execution cf soldiers who 
refused to fire at 
demonstrators. 

“We were working on our 
reports while the fighting was 
stiff going on and Securitate 
agents were patrolling the 
corridors, threatening us not 
to say a word about what had 
happened,” Dr Dressier 
recalled. 

Some time during that 
night, Securitate men re- 
mood about 40 bodies from 


foe morgue at gunpoint. 
Those were immediately 
taken to Bucharest and incin¬ 
erated, but Dr Dressier and his 
staff concealed foe relevant 
post-mortem examination 
dossiers and these arc ex¬ 
pected to provide vital evi¬ 
dence at the forthcoming trial 
offerer government officials 
and Sccuntate agents accused 
of direct involvement in the 
Timisoara killings. 

From testimony heard at 
foe recent trial of four senior 
associates of Ceausescu, it is 
clear the regime was desperate 
to cover up foe extent of foe 
bloodshed in Timisoara. 
“Looking back, fob incident 
was responsible for the rather 
terrible event foal followed at 
the Paupers’ Cemetery,” said 
Dr Dressier. 

Alarmed by reports that the 
Securitate was getting rid of 


corpses, crowds began search¬ 
ing frantically for mass graves. 
At foe Paupers’ Cemetery, Dr 
Dressier recalled, “they were 
scrambling at the earth with 
bare hands, and eventually 
they found some bodies” 

Choosing his words with 
care, he observed that not one 
of those laid out for inspection 
at foe graveyard had carried 
any trace of bullet wounds, 
though several had been 
opened up for autopsy: that 
many were so decomposed it 
was obvious they had been 
interred much earlier; and that 
the tiny body of a baby which 
provided foe most shocking 
image, lying on foe stomach of 
its “mother”, had actually 
died far more recently than 
her. 

Dr Dressier concluded that 
the corpses were among those 
of 60 unidentified or un¬ 


claimed which had been bur¬ 
ied during foe previous year. 

So could the gruesome dis¬ 
play have been staged delib¬ 
erately. hy local leaders of the 
Uprising perhaps, to discredit 
further the regime and in¬ 
fluence foreign press cover¬ 
age? “I cannot believe that.” 
said Dr Dressier. “What hap¬ 
pened. 1 think, was that in foe 
tension and high emotion that 
followed foe massacre, every 
body discovered automati¬ 
cally became of a victim of 
Ceausescu. The problem was 
that this discovery convinced 
people lhere must be others, 
and naturally those still miss¬ 
ing a friend or relative could 
not hare lo think they might 
have been dumped in an 
unmarked ditch.” 

Although 10 of the bodies 
delivered to Dr Drcssler's 
morgue have never been 


identified or claimed and now 
he in foe Cemetery of Heroes, 
he considers that foe final 
death toll in Timisoara is 

unlikely to rise much more. In 
mid-January he published his 
preliminary findings in foe 
local newspaper”! think it 
helped many people to accept 
the situation, and sir.ee then 
there has been no more dig¬ 
ging at the cemeteries” he 
said. 

But foe report also sparked 
on a rash of wall posters in foe 
centre nf Timisoara, accusing 
Dr Dressier of deliberately 
concealing the truth and mak¬ 
ing personal threats against 
him. While the police investi¬ 
gate this, a group of students 
set out to reach the final troth 
about the human cost of 
Timisoara's proud rebellion 
by knocking on foe door of 
each and every home in town. 


The United States has put 
forward a compromise pro¬ 
posal on military aircraft tim- 
|* its in an attempt to sannount 
\ the biggest obstacle to an 
agreement on reducing con¬ 
ventional forces in Europe 
before the end of foe year. 

The new proposal is dose to 
the Soviet position and was 
agreed by Nato allies in Brus¬ 
sels on Monday. 

Barring last-minute mags, 
Mr James Baker, the US 
Secretary of State, will pnt the 
proposal to Mr Eduard Shev¬ 
ardnadze, his Soviet counter¬ 
part, during their meetings in 
Moscow over the next three 
t days. Nato will present ft to 
j Soviet officials at the Con- 
’ ventional Forces in Europe 
talks in Vienna tomor row . 

US officials hope that agree¬ 
ment in principle could be 
reached as early as next week, 
when Nato and Warsaw Pact 
foreign ministers are meeting 
at the “Open Skies” con¬ 
ference in Ottawa. “Ji should 
interest them (the Soviet 
Union) a lot,” said one of- 
fkaaL “It is a real sign that we 
take what they say fairly 
seriously and are interested in 
concluding a deaL” 

Originally opposed to the 
inclusion of aircraft in the 
Conventional Forces in 
Europe talks, the US has 
slowly moved towards the 
Soviet position but has in¬ 
sisted that a treaty should 
cover all military aircraft and. 
not just “strike” aircraft. 

The new proposal envisages 
a 4,700 limit on Nato and 
Warsaw Fact combat aircraft, 
down from foe 3,700 Until . 
Nato had earlier proposed and 
the same as Mr Shevardnadze 
put forward when be met Mr 
Baker last September. 

There would be a separate 
limit of 500 on Warsaw Fact 
fighters which Moscow insists' 
have a purely defensive role, 
but Nato would be able to put 
an equivalent number of its 
own fighters into that category 
as well. Moscow wants to keep 
1,000 such aircraft. Natobas 
argued that distinguishing be¬ 
tween planes with defensive 
and offensive roles is 
impractical 

At least 2.200 Soviet trainer 
planes with no o ffe n s i v e ,■ 
capability would be fyflra fed - 
from any agreement. The 
Russians had wanted all their 
5.700 trainer planes excluded, • 
arguing that American trainer 
planes were in foe US and not 
covered by foe Conventional 
Forces in Europe talk*- ■■■ 

The proposal “is really 
structured in a way that 
should appeal to them and L 
am optimistic we should be 
able to close a deal” said one' 
senior US official. However, 
he acknowledged that the 
question of whether bombas 
should be included in the i™t 
on combat planes, and if so 
which ones, remained a stuns- 
bling block. 

• PARIS: M Roland Dumas, 
foe French Foreign Minister, 
called on foe US to forego a 
bloc-to-bloc approach IP 
disarmament tatirg to account 
for foe recent swecossfi 
changes in Europe (AFP re¬ 
ports). A polarized approach 
to negotiations involving the 
two military aHianasi would 
be a total anachronism is vjete ' 
ofa Europe free of its yoke, he . 
said. 

u Referring to the uprooting 
“Open Skies” conference in 
Ottawa, to seek an agreement 
on reciprocal aerial sarveff- 
lance of nations, M Dunn 
said it was one of those 
initiatives that feQ back on 
outdated patterns in idatiotif- 

Washmgton wanted fob 
conference to be open to A 
and Warsaw Pact members 
frty-But Mr Baker softened .. 
foe US stand in talks with M 
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increasing its membership 

The Foreign Secretary, ad- 
J«ssing the conservative 
Konrad Adenauer Founda¬ 
tion at this town near Bonn, 
offered “constructive friend¬ 
ship” on reunification, but 
also urged a mixture of “cau¬ 
tion, enthusiasm and confi¬ 
dence in each other’s com¬ 
mitment” to build a new 
Europe. 

Mr Hurd, who went on to 
meetings in Bonn with Herr 
Helmut Kohl, the West Ger¬ 
man Chancellor, and his opp¬ 
osite number. Heir Hang. 
Dietrich Genscher, agreed 
“we now need to be fertile 
with fresh thinking” but he 
emphasized that there had to 
be no abandonment of “those 
earlier policies which will 
remain important”. 

A con tinuing military struc- 
tnre for Nato was of para¬ 
mount importance. The future 
was unsettled, even if “no 
longer massively threaten¬ 
ing”. Because of this, “it 
would dearly be foolish to 
suppose that our defence and 
security problems have in 
some way been solved and 
•that we no longer need to 
think seriously about them. 
All history warns us against 
such empty optimism**. 

As fin* as reunification was 
concerned, however, he said 
that until a few days ago, 
“none of os has yet begun to 
think with any rigour of die 


and Nato to establish which 
policies needed to be kept and 
which should chan g e “to en¬ 
sure that flexibility which will 
be needed for our future 
success”. He listed five ele¬ 
ments of Nato as “necessary 
con tinuin g attributes”: 

• Maintenance of its present 
membership. German mem¬ 
bership was “a crucial dement 
in the security of us all”; 

• The US strategic commit¬ 
ment — in other words an 
American nuclear deterrent; 

• The presence of “signifi¬ 
cant” American, British and 
Canadian forces stationed in 
Europe — meaning a garrison 
in Germany; 

• A “sensible” mix of nuclear 
and conventional weapons — 
necessarily requiring nuclear 
missiles based in Germany; 

• An integrated command. 

All but the last of these are 

being body debated in West 
Germany, with the pressure 
for more disarmament becom- 
ing a key issue in the Decem¬ 
ber general election. 

On EC relations with the 
emerging democraoes in the 
East, he favoured individually 
tailored association deals. 

He won applause when he 
said: “It is inconceivable to us 
that, of all peoples in Europe, 
only the German people 
should be denied that right (of 
self-determination). 

“That is our commitment 
and conviction.” 


THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FFBRTTARV 7 1990 


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President Havel of Czechoslovakia, left, 
welcoming Mr James Baker, the United 
Stares Secretary of State, to Prague 
yesterday. Heir Haas Modrow, the East 
German Prime Minister, also arrived in 


the Czechoslovak capital boosting Mr 
HaversattreBptstosteeraiiew,iiA!pen- 
dent conrse io his country’s international 
relations (Peter Green writes). Mean- 
white, Czechoslovak negotiators left for 


Moscow yesterday to begm a second 
remd of Uh*wi iiMri c o n cerning 
Pngart demands tint the Soviet Umon 
withdraw its 80,000 troops from Czecho- 
slovaklabydie end of fids year. 


Race to save East German economy 


Herr Helmut Kohl, the West 
German Chancellor, moved 
yesterday to slave off the 
collapse of the East German 
economy and to regain the 
political initiative with a call 
for immediate talks on cur¬ 
rency union and economic 
reforms. 

Herr Kohl said he would 
raise the matter, at his meeting 
next Tuesday and Wednesday 
in Bonn, with Herr Hans 
Modrow, the East German 
Prime Minister. 

The Chancellor is trying to 
force the pace towards in¬ 
troducing the Deutschmark as 
a common currency in both 
Germanies, despite strong 
reservations from the Bund¬ 
esbank. He made the offer 


From Ian Murray, Bonn 

after a meeting of his Chris- small com] 
tian Democrat and Christian The Govern 
Social Union (CDU/CSU) mam way c 
executive yesterday, when it German ec 
was also agreed to create a the quick re 
supplementary budget of Deutscbmai 
DM7 billion (£2.5 billion) to German mi 
meet the extra cost of helping Mack mark* 
East Germany and to pay for 20 to «*»»»- 
the integration of ethnic Gear- 

nK “ refi, S“ i central to! 

The budget, expected to be coldly yesta 
introduced next Wednesday, a half boon 
will set aside DM2.15 billion East Genoa 
to subsidize the exchange rates ber, Herr J 
for East Germans visiting tbe that it was a 
West tion” to t 

Another DM2 billion is to takeover by 
help German refugees. 2 t would. 

Other money will help im- take some tii 
prove transport links, tbe As the head 
environment and promote which wouk 


small company investment 
The Government thinks the 
main way of helping the East 
German economy would be 
the quick replacement, by the 
Deutschmark, of the East 
German mark, which on tbe 
biarff market is exchanged at. 
20 to one. 

But Herr Otto P6hU the 
central bank's president, said 
cokDy yesterday, after two and 
a half hours of talks with his 
East Gennan opposite num¬ 
ber, Herr Hoist Kaminsky, 
that it was a “fantastic sugges¬ 
tion” to talk of a quick 
takeover by the Deutschmark. 

It would, he said firmly, 
take some time to accomptish. 
As the head of die institution 
which would have to nm snch 


a acfienw* he has the final say. 
There has ben mounting 

phHcfiri tippn that the Bnnn 
Government has foiled to 
move quteldy enough to help 
East Germany and to stem the 
flow of refugees, still pouring 
in at the rate of more than 
2,000 a day. 

In further moves, Herr Kohl 
presides over a Cabinet meet¬ 
ing today seeking to draw up a 
schedule for reunification in 
every sphere bat defence, 
while West Gennan political 
parties, brushing aside the 
East Genn an ptea not to 
participate in the March elec¬ 
tion campaign, are drawing up 
alliances with “brother” par¬ 
ties and preparing tours for 

senior speakers. 


OVERSEAS NEWS 


WORLD ROUNDUP 


Aoun celebrates 
artillery success 

West Beirut — General Michel Aoun’s army yesterday 
celebrated the elimination of artillery positions in bi ll s 
overlooking the town of Dbayeh five miles north of the 
capital, the general’s most succesful operation in his costly 
seven-day war against the Fhalangist militia of Mr Samir 
Geagea (Juan Carlos Gumucio writes). 

According to military sources, infantrymen had ed by 
heavy artillery and tank fire stormed and destroyed seven 
militia garrisons and gnn emplacements in the bill* above 
Dbayeh which is on the coastal road linkin g Beirut with 
northern Lebanon and maritime lines used by the militias to 
ferry men and ammunition to its beleaguered garrisons in 
tbe capital. Mr Samir Geagea's forces were said last night to 
be trying to prevent tanks and other armour moving towards 
Jounieh and Bytdos, two key Phalangist bastions. 

Menem praises UK 

Buenos Aires — President Menem of Argen tina, in a meeting 
yesterday with Lord King of Wartnaby, chairman of British 
Airways, said be had “the highest respect” for Mrs Thatcher 
and her Government (David Brewerton writes). He is 
anxious to restore full diplomatic relations with Britain as 
soon as possible and said he is keen to encourage foreign 
investment in Argentina. The two countries may announce 
resumption of diplomatic relations next week when senior 
official* meet in Madrid. Airline offer, page 23 

Hunt for bus killers 

Jerusalem — As six of the 10 Israeli victims of Sunday's 
t erro rist attack on a tourist bus in Egypt were butted 
yesterday, Egyptian police said they were dose to tracking 
down oik of the gunmen, a Palestinian travelling on a 
Jordanian passport (Richard Owen writes). Police are also 
hunting for a second Palestinian. The Palestinian driver of 
the attacked bus is being held. Police believe that the attack 
was mounted by Egyptian Muslim fundamentalists and 
Palestinian extremists opposed to the more moderate 
policies pursued by the Palestine Liberation Organization. 

Koran publisher sues 

Paris — The Paris-based publisher of the controversial, 
cartoon version of the Koran said yesterday that he was 
preparing to sue Islamic religious authorities in the courts in 
Tunis (Alan Tillier writes). Mr Youssef Seddik, a Tunisian 
publisher, said that he planned a British edition in May 
whatever the outcome of his case in Tunis. His case there 
will be based on the separation of church and state. His 
book. If The Koran Had Been Told To Me, was theologically 
correct, he said, adding that he was an Islamic scholar and 
had gone to considerable pains to avoid offence. 

Boat people meeting 

Koala Lumpnr—Malaysia and Vietnam have begun talks to 
link the Vietnamese boat people to a bilateral trade and 
economic agreement (M.G.G. Pfllai writes). Da to Ahmad 
Kamil Jaffor, tbe Malaysian foreign secretary, returned from 
the first round of meetings in Hanoi last week and said that 
they would be resumed in Kuala Lumpur within four weeks. 

TV hoax on Italians 

Know (Renter) — A television documentary that convinced 
millio ns the Italian republic was founded on a fraud, after a 
1946 referendum on abolishing the monarchy “had been 
rigged”, provoked a storm of criticism yesterday. At the end 
of the programme, Gianni Minoli, the host, said tbe hoax 
had been staged to show how TV could be manipulated. 












NOBODY BOYS A PORSCHE FOR 
THE CIGAR LIGHTER, TOOL KIT OR 
SEAT ADJOSTERS. WHICH IS 
EXACTLY WHY WE CHECK THEM. 




Have you ever strolled past an 
Official Porsche Centre and lingered 
for a moment at the window casually 
perusing the cars? 

Wondered, perhaps, what it might 
feel like to get behind the wheel of that 
928? Or the 944? Or the 911? 

As your pulse raced a little at the 
prospect, it may have escaped your notice 
that, while all the cars look immaculate, 
one or two are in fact used. 

Or, as we say at Porsche, Porsche 
Approved. 

‘Used by whom?’ you may ask, as you 
struggle to distinguish these cars from 
their new counterparts. ‘A vicars wife?’ 

Hardly. 

Indeed far from being a sleight of 
hand, those ‘brand new’ used Porsches 
are the result of a deliberate policy con¬ 
ceived by Professor Porsche himself. 

This decrees that the company will 
only build cars which are timeless in 
design and durable in construction. 

The 944 in our picture is a testimony 
to this philosophy. 

Despite its ‘ET registration, it cannot 
be said to be showing its age. 

An assertion that owes more to 
Porsche engineers than it does to our 


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photograph. (Unretouched.) 

They must take the credit for the 
aerodynamic lines and the electrostati¬ 
cally bonded paintwork. 

They should receive the praise for the 
2.5-litre, 160 brake horse power engine. 

To them must go the accolades for 
utilising the twin balancer shafts that 
keep the engine smooth even at the 944’s 
maximum speed of 135 raph*. 

And they surely deserve the plaudits 
for the ingenious Transaxle driveline 
system which creates the near-perfect 
weight distribution and, in turn, the 
absolutely precise handling. 

But how does Porsche preserve the 
integrity of these engineers and their cars 
through the years? 

What does Porsche do to protect its 
reputation for reliability and safety as 
some of the world's most powerful cars 
pass from one owner to the next? 

Answer: The Porsche Approved 
Programme. Available only at Official 
Porsche Centres, it is a 72-point check 
which every used Porsche must pass 
before it becomes a Porsche Approved car. 

As the rigorous examination of each 
mechanical and electrical component pro¬ 
ceeds, all parts are deemed equal in the 



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eyes of a Porsche technician. 

The door hinges are as critical as the 
brake fluid. The glove box lamp as import 
taut as die alternator. 

Each part works, is fixed, or is 
replaced. ‘Maybe' is not a word in the 
Porsche technician's vocabulary. 

After this inspection, the real test 
begins. 

On the road 

Here, the technician isable to employ 
to the full his experience of the feel and 
sound of a Porsche. 

Here also, the more pedantic the 
technician is, the better he is at his job. 

Is the acceleration quick and respon¬ 
sive? Is the handling precise? Are the 
brakes sure? 

All questions which beg the most 
important question of all: does the car 
perform like a true Porsche? 

A judgement which can only be 
made by a technician from an Official 
Porsche Centre. 

It's a big responsibility and we make 
sure he's up to it. 

To heroine fully qualified can take 
him up to S years. 

Even then, each and every technician 
must undergo theoretical and practical 
training for a set number of days each 
year at the Porsche Training School. 

But there& no resting on laurels. 

Every three years, all technicians 
including the most senior and experi¬ 
enced must repass Porsche's exams. 

It's ruthlessly uncompromising but 
then so are the cars. 

To the extent that even when the car 
is finally Porsche Approved, we are still 
concerned for its well-being. And yours. 

Every Approved Porsche comes with 
. a one year warranty that insures against 



the repair and replacement costs of any 
major component. 

And should you ever encounter 
trouble, whether you're in the wilds of 
Scotland The Mont Blanc tunnel or just 
stuck in your driveway, all you have to do 
Is call Porsche Assistance, a 24-hour-a- 
day, 365-days-a-year recovery service that 
operates across Europe. 

It heaven forbid, you get stranded, 
well arrange a replacement car. Or put 
you up for the night in a first class hoteL 

Nothing is too much. 

After,all, Porsche does not see you as 
a here-today, gone-tomorrow purchaser 
of a used car. 

lb us. anyone who buys a Porsche 


from an Official Porsche Centre is one 
more person who appreciates the exact¬ 
ing standards established by Porsche 
engineers. 

One more driver who realises that 
exhilaration can only come with complete 
confidence in every component in the car. 

And that includes the cigar lighter, 
the tool kit and the seat adjusters. 

To test drive a Porsche Approved 
Porsche, contact your local Official 
Porsche Centre listed in the Yellow Pages. 

For further information on the 
Porsche Approved Programme, contact 
Customer Relations, Porsche Cars Great 
Britain Limired Freepost, Reading 
RG1 1BR. Telephone: 0734 323959. 
Fax: 0734 303713. Telex: 846465. 

•Manufacturer’s figures. 

The Porsche.Crest and Script are the 
registered trademarks of Dr. Ing.h-cJF. 
Porsche AC. 


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Protesters keep up Kashmir tension 


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From Christopher Thoms 

Thousands of anti-Pakistan 
demonstrators marched 
through Indian Kashmir's 
capital of Jammn yesterday as 
cross-border tensions esca¬ 
lated. The Pakistan High 
Commission in Delhi was 
besieged by protesters. 

Events of the past 48 horns 
have demonstrated how 
quickly the Kashmir crisis 
could ran out of control, 
desuite dear evidence that 
both Delhi and Islamabad are 
struggling to contain it. 

Both sides are under domes¬ 
tic pressure to adopt a tough 
stance. Mr Bashir Khan Ba- 
bar, Pakistan's High Commis¬ 
sioner in Delhi, was sum¬ 
moned to the External Affairs 
Ministry yesterday to be told 

♦Imt a dw rfiiig iiHMent ftnthe 

border on Monday was tbe 
result of inflammatory actions 
and s tatements by Pakistani 
leaders. 

The shooting happened 
when a large cr ow d — said by 
India to number 4,000 — 
marched towards the border. 

Some people crossed over and 
Indian forces opened fire, 
killing one and injuring 13. 

Reports from Jammu said 
that more than 10,000 college 
students marched through the w 
city in protest at Pakistani 
“interference" in Kashmir. 

Valley is mostly Mus lim . Congress (I) party are braced 

India formally conveyed its for another crushing defeat. 








lo-T 1 . 1 d» 11: 




“grave concern and deep re- the second in three months. 


indwni forces »g*i»E tear gas against Muslim protesters at Srinagar in Jannrai and Kashmir state on Friday. Foreign journalists are barred from the area. 


gret” over the shooting and 
the attempted border crossing. 


The expected defeat is 
bound to ira jghton dissatisfic* 


Foreign journalists are banned tion whb Mr Gandhi's leader- 
from Indian Kashmir but on- dap, ahhough there is stiQ a 
the-spot reports fitnn Indian keen sense that without him 
correspondents yesterday sug- the party would split. It is the 


gested that the crowd tried to value of Mr Gandhi's name, 
cross at four border points, rather <feni any conviction 
Most were stopped by the about his leadership^ that has 
Pakistani rangers, but some so fir protected Mm from 
finally got through at a section serious challenge, 
for United Nations observers. More than 200 million 
Tensions over Kashmir people will be el ig i b le to vote 
could be inflamed even fur* m the February 27 poll Mr 


ther during campaigning next GandhTs 
week for key elections to eight dominate 
stale assemblies, most of them nntii it 


GandhTs party traditionally 
dominated the Hindi belt 
until it was routed in last 


in the northern Hindi4an- November's general election. 


guagebeh. 


The campaign wifi be in- 


Mr Rajiv Gandhi, the for- finenced by three crises — 
zner Prime Minuter, and his Kashmir, Punjab and a dan¬ 


gerous Muslim-Hindu disute 
over a religious she at 
Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Both 
Kashmir and Ayodhya «wM 

inflame communal strife — 
Kashmir because of its 
broader Pakistan-versua-lndia 
dimension, and Ayodhya 
because it is in the middle of a 
vola tile Hindu area where 
millinns of Muslims also Jive. 

To make matters worse; 
Hindu extremists have chosen 
February 14, when the elec¬ 
tion campaign wfil be in full 
swing, to begm construction of 
a temple at the she of a 16th- 
century mosque in Ayodhya. 
The National Front Govern¬ 
ment is trying to persuade 

ni pwibm to ffrl ay pfa" 

The Punjab crisis is also 
inflaming cross-border ten¬ 
sions. 


Sind unrest threatens Bhutto 


MBS Ttemaiir BhnttO, the 

Pakistan Prime Minister, 
faces a virtual coflapse of law 
and order in her home prov¬ 
ince of Sod. Mounting ethnic 
tension and raging street gun 
battles between the rating 
Pakistan People’s Party and 
the opposition MohaJirQuomi 
Movement (MQM) has led to 
curfews in sewn leading cities 
hi Sind and Karachi districts. 

The Anay was called in and 
heavily armed pofice were 
posted at stale televiszea and 
radio «*■♦*— fai Karachi on 
Monday, as the MQM, which 
virtually controls Karachi and 


Ron Zahid Hussain, Karachi 

Hyderabad, the two main cit¬ 
ies of Sind province, issued a 
gnenl strike call against 
what it says are grow ing 
atrocities of the Fakfitan Peo¬ 
ple’s Party. 

Hundreds of MQM ac¬ 
tivists pi >HfP datiniw 

in Arambagh district of Ka¬ 
rachi yestoday demanding the 
registr at ion of mnrder cases 
sgeiawt the People's Party 
leader. At least 13 people were 
seriously wounded in an ex¬ 
change of fire and troops were 
called in. 

More than 10 people have 
been killed in Karachi in 


pitched street gan battles over 
the last week. 

Mr Aladaf Hussain, the 
main leader of the MQM, a 
milit ant organization of the 
Mofaajir nationalists, has 
called President Ishaq Khan 
to dismiss the People's Party 
Government and dedate emer¬ 
gency and ptesidemia] rale in 
Sind province. Mr Hussain 
accused the Peopled Party of 
fanning etiUDC in rtn» 

province to perpetuate its rrie. 

Miss Bhutto has sent Mr 
AitzazAhson, her Home Min¬ 
ister, to Karachi to ^"flr Hf 


The nomination by President 
Bush of a Mack, conservative 

Innnwr M fl (nHuC fif the COUTt 


of Appeals in Washington - 
secopd in importance only to 

the US Supreme Court - was 
set yesterday to test the neal 
views of the country's liberals. 

Mr Clarence Thomas, aged 
41, is Mr Bush's first black 
nominee to the federal bench 
and nobody disputes that the 

Yak-educated lawyer is highly 

qualified. 

The position he will fill was 

last held by Judge Robert 
Bork, who was rejected as a 
President Reagan nominee to 
the Supreme Omit 

Mr Thomas, who grew up 
poor in the South before the 
dvfl rights crusade of Martin 
Luther King, is a conser¬ 
vative. Liberals seem to dis¬ 
approve of him for one of the 
ynsrin reasons that Repub¬ 
licans describe him as a rising 

star. He is a critic of affir¬ 
mative action, the quota sys¬ 
tem for employing racial 
minorities. 

He is regarded as a po tentia l 
successor to the Supreme 
Court’s cmly black judge. Jus¬ 
tice Thuigood Marshall, if the 
Democrat-controlled Senate 
judiciary committee, which 
started confirmation proceed¬ 
ings yesterday, approves his 
current nomination. 

His a ppro a ch to disc rimin a- 
tion contrasts sharply with 
that of Justice Marshall, who 
has championed the view that 
blacks shodd be compensated 
with job and education 
opportunities for decades of 
oppression. 

Mr Thomas resents what he 
calls “racism of sympathy" 
and has voiced frustration at 
the way affirmative action has 
degenerated, with the support 
of leftwing groups, info a 
system of quotas that also 
demeans minorities 

Yet Mr Thomas also fought 
the White House for faffing to 
produce a "positive rivO 
rights agenda" and, as Prca- 


Equal Employment Oppota. 
nity Commission in 1982, fe 


monneu iw u bct xur acut 

discrimination complaints. 

Conservatives have been 
angered that the Senate jo. 
didary committee, which s 
chaired by Senator Josqfi 
Bkteo, a Democrat from Dela¬ 
ware, has been hunting for 
evidence that Mr Thomas 
discriminated against Hhpao. 
its while he chaired the 

“Oareace Thomas has fih 
the last of injustice," said Mr 
William Robinson, the Dean 
of the District of Gobunba 
School of Law, in a letter to 
the Legal Times. “He's old 
enough to have e xpe ri t m e d 
the pro-1964 apartheid system 
in this country.*’ 

Mr Thomas, a man of steely 

independence, grew np in 
Georgia when restaaram and 
bus seating were segregated. 
His father abandoned him 
when he was small and he was 
brought up by his graod&thcr 
from the age of seven. As the 
first Mack enrolled at an 
exclusive boarding school in 

Savannah, he received a good 

education but suffered per¬ 
sonal indignities. At night 
classmates told him to sunk 
“so we can see you". One of 
his peers wrote in a yearbook: 
“Keep on trying, Qareoce. 
One day you wiQ be as good as 
us.” Later, be read 
X, toyed with Mack national¬ 
ism and eventually held posts 
as Assistant Attorney General 
in Missouri. 

“His life is his own best 
testimony,’’ the Wall Street 
Journal wrote in an editoriaL 

Bat civil rights groups are 
divided. Fourteen liberal 
members of Congress have 
opposed his nomination to the 
Court of Appeals. The nom¬ 
ination has drawn so much 
attention in Washington that 
leaders of prominent civil 
rights organizations are not 
taking a stand. 


Mafia trial 


Dapper Don bets 
on beating rap 

From Charles Bremner, New York 


Far right threat hangs over Mandela 


Strikes hit 
services 


A New York jury yesterday 
started to consider the file Of 
Mr John Gotti, the last surviv¬ 
ing “Godfather” of the Ameri¬ 
can Mafia, after a circus-like 
trial that appeared only to 
have boosted the defendant’s 
belief in his invincibility and 
standing as a media celebrity. 

“No problem,” Mr Gotti 
chuckled as he left the court¬ 
house surrounded by his 
entourage of soldiers to await 
the jury’s verdict on a charge 
that he ordered the shooting of 
a disrespectful union official 
If convicted, Mr Gotti will 
fece a life sentences 

Mr Gotti, whose taste for 
expensive tailoring has earned 
him the nickname Dapper 
Don, has laid three-to-one 
bets that he will beat the latest 
rap that federal prosecutors 
have brought against him in 
their war to cripple his com¬ 
mand of the Gambino “crime 
family". 

The Gambinos are the only 
old-style Mafia dan still 
operating after an unprece¬ 
dented purge of the mob 
hierarchy in the 1980s. 

In a three-week televised 
trial Mr Gotti's lawyers 
worked hard to undermine the 
two key points of prosecution 
evidence—a tape-recording in 
which he is alleged to have 
ordered the shooting and the 
testimony of an underworld 
associate. The prosecutors 
were forced to acknowledge 
that the recording, made at the 


Bergen Fish and Hunt Qub 
where Mr Gotti does business, 
was so murky that it was open 
to varied inter pretati on. 

Mr Brace Cutler, the chief 
defence lawyer, denounced 
the prosecutors for waging a 
vendetta against his client. 
“The majesty of this 
couxtoom can be snBied with 
the corruptness of this case,” 
Mr Older told the jury. “In 
the prosecutors lust for head¬ 
lines and a noteworthy figure 
as they accused, they forgot 
the truth." 

In a stumbling summary, 
Mr Michael Cherkasky, the 
prosecutor, explained to the 
jury why Mr John O'Connor, 
the victim of the shooting, had 
turned up as a defence witness 
to say he had no idea who shot 
him. “If you get shot by John 
Gotti for braking up a res¬ 
taurant,” Mr Cherkasky 
asked, “what happens if you 
testify against him?" 

Laughing off the a flair as 
the jury went out, Mr Gotti 
quipped to his television audi¬ 
ence: “The people aren't try¬ 
ing me. The people like me, at 
least 1 think they do." 

But the Don. whose word is 
said to strike fear throughout 
the New York underworld, 
was not pleased by a personal 
slight made by the prosecutor 
against his own lawyer. “Did 
you bear him zing my lawyer 
7" Mr Gotti asked reporters. 
“Bruce should hit him on the 
chin.” 


From Gavin Bell 
Cape Town 

The personal safety of Nelson 
Mandela after he is released is a 
source of profound concern to the 
South African Government and the 
African National Congress. 

The furious reaction of the white 
right wing to the removal of bans on 
the ANC has fuelled fears of Mandela 
filling victim to an assassin's bullet 
and of ensuing chaos. 

Such an event would deprive South 
Africa of arguably the only man 
capable of reconciling its races and 
tribes after generations of conflict, 
and would wreck the Government’s 
peace initiative. 

President de Klerk, in announcing 
his landmark reforms on Friday, 
referred specifically to Mandela’s 
security as a factor in delaying his 
release. 

Since then, the rhetoric of right- 
wing politicians and sporadic violence 
by their extremist followers, have 
done nothing to di minish the anxiety. 

Dr Andries Treurnicht, leader of 
the fir-right Conservative Party, has 
condemned Mr de Klerk’s moves as 
“absolutely outrageous”, and an¬ 
nounced a national campaign aimed 
at recruiting a million supporters to 


oppose the Government. The white 
population would be mobilized, be 
said, under the “A free nation 
in its own fatherland". 

Mr Tom Langley, a Conservative 
front-bencher, said be would not be 
surprised if young whites resorted to 
violent co nfron tation, and the leader 
of the ultra-right Boercstaat Party has 
warned of the threat of dvfl war. 

While such statements present no 
direct threat to Mandela, there are 
well-armed fanatics in clandestine 
white organizations who do. 

A shotgun attack on the British 
Embassy in Pretoria at the weekend 
was a reminder of what they are 
capable of against in-defended targets. 
The assailants had time to run up a 
flag of the old Boer republics and daub 
a slogan “The struggle begins — Order 
of the Boer People" on an embassy 
gate. 

Two separate incidents on Saturday 
highlighted the savagery in extremist 
ranks. In Transvaal six while men in 
vehicles picked up a number of 
Macks, raying they bad work for them, 
took them to a remote spot and, with 
fists, feet and whips, beat than. One 
was allegedly kicked to death. Police 
said the whites were arrested, and 
would be charged with murder and 
attempted murder. In the Orange Free 


Stale, members of a fir-right organiza¬ 
tion stormed a building, when they 
spotted a photographer from an 
Afrikaans newspaper on a balcony, 
and severely assaulted him. He is 
recovering in hospital 

Outside Parliament Buildings in 
Cape Town yesterday, a white man 
dressed in a smart b usiness suit, 
clambered to the top of a statue of Jan 
Smuts, South Africa's wartime leader, 
bearing a large South African flag and 
a placard denouncing Mr de Klerk as a 
traitor. 

To the amusement and derision of a 
multiracial crowd, be proceeded to 
rail in Afrikaans—and then obligingly 
in English for a television crew - that 
the President had betrayed the white 
community. 

A young coloured woman summed 
up the mood by calling out “Get 
down, man, we don't kneel at your 
feet any more. Viva Mandela.” 

Compared to other countries where 
public figures are under threat, sec¬ 
urity here often appears lax, and a 
long list of anti-apartheid activists 
murdered in recent years testifies to 
the impunity with which white “death 
squads” operate. 

Mandela’s first days of freedom 
may be the most critical. He will be 
besieged by thousands of admirers. 


and pursued by honks of journalists 
wherever he goes. 

Mr Johnny Issel a prominent ANC 
activist once wanted by the security 
police, says the threat to Mandela 
should not be underestimated. “We 
are taking this very seriously. The 
right is in a very confused state; they 
are acting irrationally, and have 
already started attacking and killing 
blacks.” 

He said the best solution would be 
for Mandela to be guarded by his own 
“soldiers” from the armed wing of the 
ANC “The Government allows other 
pdititians who visit the country to 
bring their own aimed bodyguards, so 
why not Mandela? If we cann ot 
protect him with arms, we will do so 
with our own lives if necessary." 

Mr Issel discounted suggestions 
that Mandela was under threat from 
black radicals opposed to any form of 
negotiations with the Government. 

Dr Genii Viljoen, the Minister for 
Constitutional Development, said 
yesterday that Mandela would be 
released “very soon” and special 
security measures were being 
considered. 

In the heated political climate, Mr 
de Klerk may also be a potential 
target, but Mandela clearly runs the 
greater risk. 


South Africa orders out British tour journalists 


From Ray Kennedy 
Johannesburg 

South Africa yesterday ord¬ 
ered two British reporters 
covering the controversial 
tour of the country by Mike 
Gatling's team of English 
cricket rebels to leave 
immediately. 

Paul Weaver of Today had 
his temporary work permit 
withdrawn, and Gareth Furby 


of Independent Radio News 
was said to have entered the 
country as a tourist and 
without documentation to 
work. 

Weaver has been in Pre¬ 
toria’s bad books since the 
tourists arrived on January 19 
when he wrote a graphic first- 
person account of police ac¬ 
tion against demonstrators. 
Mr Gene Louw, Minister of 
Home Afiairs, alleged yes¬ 


terday that Weaver arrived at 
the airport two hours after the 
incidents “on which he re¬ 
ported so recklessly". 

He said Furby had said he 
was visiting South Africa to 
see friends "but was actually 
reporting on the cricket and 
other events". He added: “He 
is not a sports writer and it is 
clear that his reporting is 
focused on causing maximum 
negative perceptions concern¬ 


ing the tour as well as police 
actions.” 

They arc the first journalists 
to be expelled from South Afr¬ 
ica for three years. A number 
of resident foreign correspon¬ 
dents were ordered out after a 
state of emergency — partially 
relaxed by President de Klerk 
last week — was imposed and 
draconian censorship laws 
were enacted to restrict cover¬ 
age of police action to tackle 


nationwide black unrest Al¬ 
though Weaver’s report was 
written for the British tabloid 
market his expulsion is cer¬ 
tain to arouse questions about 
bow genuine the Government 
is about letting the world see 
all sides of the reform process. 

Thousands of applications 
have been received by Pre¬ 
toria for accreditation to cover 
Nelson Mandela's release. 
Cricket protest, page 42 


Japan cult chief offers salvation 


Mr Shoko Asahara, a maver¬ 
ick Buddhist sect leader who 
makes devotees drink his 
blood and sip potions b rewed 
from his long Mack hair, is 
offering Japanese voters an 
unusual alternative to the 
grey-suited candidates in this 
month's general election. 

His notoriety grew after 
police questioned him about 
the disappearance last year of 
a lawyer who fought for 
families that had lost childre n 
to his cult. Mr Tsutsumi 
Sakamoto, aged 33, his wife 
and his baby son vanished 
from their home in Yoko¬ 
hama more than two months 
ago and their whereabouts 
remain a mystery. Police 
found a badge rfMrAsahara’s 
sect on the floor of the 
Sakamotos* empty house. 

Mr Asabara has assured 
police he knows nothing about 
the sudden disappearance, 
and the drama has done little 
to dull the enthusiasm of his 
4,000, mostly young, disciples. 

A tubby, bearded mas aged 
34, Mr Asabara is offering the 
country salvation from what 
he predicts will be a USJapan 


economic war, a surge m 
nationalist fervour and a re¬ 
vival of militarism. 

He says be can protea 
Japan from these plagues if be 
is voted into Parliament. He 
does not explain why he will 
not use his mystical powers 
even ifhe remains an ordinary 
Buddhist preacher. 

His praters are all over 
Tokyo and subway exits are 
thronged by his followers, all 
wearing rubber masks of his 
podgy fece. But few outside 
his secretive inner circle 
believe in bis powers. 

He daims to be able to 
levitate and to hold bis breath 
and meditate for hours under 
water. Photographs arc the 
outside world’s only proof and 
darkroom experts say the 
pictures are dumsy photo- 
composites. The one passable 
levitation photograph shows 
him cross-legged with his long 
hair trailing upwards, suggest¬ 
ing that rather than firing he 
was crudely snapped filling 
from a height, 

Mr Asahara Haims he is 
“the only priest in Japan who 
has ever readied the ultimate 


From Joe Joseph, Tokyo 

a surge in Nirvana" and has “descended 
tr and a re- from a legendary utopia to this 
3. secular world as a saviour". 

»n protect Tfcg Asahara cull is one of 
j? a S Iies “J5 c several new religions that have 
™ sprang up to sale rich Japa- 
. y fic nese youngsters’ thirst for the 




Mr Asahara: Would-be MP 
who daims he can levitate. 

meaning of life, though at a 
price; Mr Asahara’s premium 
course of yoga meditation and 
psychic power costs around a 
million yea (£4,000), although 
that sum ind udes a swig of the 
master's blood. The magic 


does cot always work. A dis¬ 
enchanted former follower 
said* “Though we did not see 
the blood being taken from the 
master, they banded out a 
small wine containing 
three to four teaspoonsful of 
Hood to each of us. 

“Well, it had no effect. I 
could not get the power. I 

decided to leave the cult when 
they asked me to write a will 
saymg that aB my pro p e rty 

would go to the cult if I died.” 

A father who finally got to 
sec his daughter after months 
of badgering the cult’s bead- 
quarters wept when be saw 
“how rite had become skin 
and bones is such a short 
time. I cannot sleep at night 
because 1 am so worried”. 

However, Mr Asahara re¬ 
tains a troop of devoted fol¬ 
lowers, who say that they have 
found truth, enlightenment, 
the secret of rguvenation and 
even learal how to conquer 
cancer under his guidance 
With such powers, Mr Asa¬ 
hara and the 24 of his disripfes 
naming with him on February 
18 should find the challenge of 
the hustings easy. 


Iran and France ‘discuss deal 
to free American hostages’ 

n_ a t_nrni!.*. - n_2_ a . ■_ 


! The French newspaper Le 
Figaro said yesterday Presi¬ 
dent Bush and President 
1 Mitterrand had discussed a 
proposal by Ban that a Leba¬ 
nese prisoner held in France 
should be freed as part of 
negotiations to free American 
hostages held in Lebanon. 

The report came amid re¬ 
newed indications that Presi¬ 
dent Rafsanjani of Iran is 
again looking for a way to 
improve links with the West 
However, because of extreme 
sensitivities left by the Iran- 
Contra scandal both sides arc 
showing great caution. 

According to Le Figaro , 
Iran sought the release of Anis 
Naccache, who was sentenced 
to life imprisonment for kill¬ 
ing two people during a 1980 
assassination attempt in Paris 
a gainst Mr Shapur Bakhtiar, 
the former Iranian Prime 
Mimster.The newspaper said 
his release was a key factor in 
negotiations for the freedom 
of American hosiagcs. Mr 
Terry Anderson, regional bu- 


By Alan Tilller in Paris and Andrew McEwen In London 

wspaper Le reau chief for Associated the US Sa 
rrday Presi- Press, and Mr Thomas Suthcr- when thev 1 
I President land, dean of the faculty of during a stoj 
discussed a agronomy at the American airport in d 
that a Leba- University of Beirut, arc yesterday, 
d in France among eight Americans be- jj,_ 
as part of lieved to be held in Lebanon. hcW in 
* American Naccache, aged 36. has 1988 after 
ebanon. described himself as the Euro- restore dip!- 

ic amid re- P 03 " spokesman of Hcz- with Inin. T 
i that Presi- bollah. which is believed to be of Naccache 
of Iran is bolding most of the hostages, obstacles to a 
r a way to 11 ^ link* with hardline ment in Fra 
h the West elements in Tehran. lions. He era 

: of extreme He has served nearly 10 hunger strike 
>y the Iran- years, and Le Figaro said his request of 
»th sides arc sentence might be commuted according to 
tfon. *0 20 years, leading 10 his France aw 

Le Figaro ficcdoin35 “ next year, bolding regu 

ease of Anis The US has repeatedly de- over a SI bi 

is sentenced n<cd that it negotiates with lion) loan gra 
ent for kill- kidnappers, though negotia- the late Shah 
ring a 1980 lions with Iran would not fill to be not dire 
□□tin Paris “* to that category. Western hostage issue, 

ir Bakhtiar, diplomats said, however, that The Irani 
lion Prime Washington had not made any Tehran Tirtu 
spacer said t®* 01 approaches to Iran. August that 1 
ieyfectorin M Roland Dumas, the vene with the 
he freedom French Foreign Minister, is the US refeas 
wy*- Mr believed to have discussed the frozen 10 y 
rational bu- issue with Mr James Baker, President Gar 


the US Secretary of State, 
when they met for breakfast 
during a stopover at Shannon 
airport in the Irish Republic 
yesterday. 

The bst French hostages 
Ubanon were freed in 
1988 after Paris agreed to 
restore diplomatic relations 
with Iran. The imprisonment 
of Naccache has proved an 
obstacles 10 a further improve¬ 
ment in Fran co-Iranian rela¬ 
tions. He ended a five-month 

hunger strike last month at the 

request of Iranian lead en, 
according to his lawyers said. 

France and Iran have been 
holding regular negotiations 
over a SI billion (£588 mil¬ 
lion) loan granted to France by 
the late Shah, but this is said 
to be not directly linked to the 
hostage issue. 

The Iranian newspaper 
Tehran Times, suggested last 
August that Iran would inter¬ 
vene with the hostage-taken if 
the US released Iranian assets 
frozen 10 years earlier by 
President Carter. 


Athens (Renter) — A wave of 
strikes engulfed Greece yes¬ 
terday with power blackouts 
in the capital and part opera¬ 
tions severely disrupted. 

Hospital doctors and bus 
drivers were also among those 
demanding more pay and 
fresh curbs on rising costs. 
About 30,000 dectridty work¬ 
ers began a two-day strike 
yesterday. 

Briton critical ■ 

Singapore (Renter)—Norman 
Parkinson, the British photog¬ 
rapher, improved slightly after 
brain surgery here but remains 
critically flL 

Envoy ousted 

Geneva (AFP) — A Chinese 
diplomat was expelled from a 
meeting of the United Nations 
Commission on Human 
Rights here when be tried to 
photograph a Tibetan who 
spoke during the debate. 

Satellite plan 

A bn Dhabi (Renter) — Iraq 
will soon launch its own 
satellite after last year’s test of 
a carrier rocket, an Iraqi 
official was quoted as saying. 4 

Student riot 

Seoul (Reuter) — Hundreds of 
South Korean students, 
denouncing the merger of 
President Roh's party with 
two opposition groups, fought 
a battle with riot police here. 

Cholera move 

Lusaka (AP) — The Z amf” 8 ” 
Government has dosed all 
schools in the capital to stop 
the spread of cholera. 

Nepal arrests 

Kathmandu (AP) — Authori¬ 
ties arrested 60 more members . 
of the banned Nepali Congress 
Party, a party spokesman said. 

Doctors lost 

Nairobi (Renter) — Two doc¬ 
tors working for the medical 
charity Mederins Sans Fron- 
tteres are missing in southern 
Sudan and thought to be in the 
hands of rebels. -# 

Killer jailed 

Los Angeles (Renter) - Mflos 
Klvana, a Czechoslovak-born 
obstetrician, has been jafled 
for 53 years for the second- 
degree murder of eight babies 
and a foetus. 

Order defied 

Ku al a Lumpur (Reals') “■ 

More than 3,000 Malaysian 
plantation labourers defied a 
government order ymri re¬ 
mained on strike to press their 

pay demands. 

Priest out 

Washington (AFP) — The *- 
Roman CxxhnxU; Church’* 
archdiocese of Washington 
has excommunicated Father 
George Stallings, a rebel bta* 
pnest who Parted his own 
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PARLIAMENT 


Sentencing change ‘is 


biggest in 50 years’ 


Wide-ranging changes in 
the sentencing of crim¬ 
inals were outlined to 
MPa'by Mr David Wad- 
din gton, Home Secretary, 
when he made a state¬ 
ment on his White Paper, 
Crime, Justice and Pro¬ 
tecting the Public. 

He said that the proposals 
pointed to the most fun¬ 
damental and far-reaching 
changes for at least half a 
century in the way offenders 
were punished. 

Mr Waddingtoa said that, in 
preparing the proposals for a 
coherent legislative framework 
for sentencing, the Govern¬ 
ment’s aim had been to .ensure 
that offenders were punished 
according to the seriousness of 
their crimes, to see they received 
their just deserts, and to see that 
the public was properly pro¬ 
tected. 

Really serious crime, particu¬ 
larly serious violent crime, had 
to be followed by really severe 
punishment. The right punish¬ 
ment for serious violent crime 
was a long prison sentence. 

The Government believed 
that it should have at the 
forefront of its mind the victims 
of crime. It was time to spell out 
what victims were entitled 10 
expect, what help was available 
to them, and to consider what 
more had to be done. 

The Government would be 
publishing a Victims Charter on 
February 22, European Victims 
Day. 

Mr Roy Hattersley, chief 
Opposition spokesman on 
home affairs, said that Labour 
strongly supported the principle 
on which the White Paper was 
based. 

There should be a distinction 
in sentencing policy between 
violent and sexually related 
crimes and less serious crimes 
property. Less serious 
offenders should be punished in 
the community. For first offend¬ 
ers, prison was more likely to 


HOME OFFICE 


promote a lift of crime than 
prevent it 

Labour welcomed linking 
fines to an ability to pay, the 
.requirement on courts to con¬ 
sider probation reports before 
awarding custodial sentences, 
and to give reasons for awarding 
prison sentences. 

Labour bad no argument with 
the principles, but only with the 
way in which they would be 
implemented. 

There were still discrepancies 
between sentencing in different 
courts, between men and 
women, and black and Asian 
British citizens. The Govern¬ 
ment bad urged the judiciary to 
make more use of non-custodial 
sentences, but it bad not 
responded. 

Steps should be taken to 
ensure greater consistency in 
sentencing policy. The Govern¬ 
ment should not have set its face 
against a sentencing mwmt 

Labour welcomed the pro¬ 
posals to make probation auto¬ 
matic for prison sentences of 
less than four years. If the 
Carlisle report (on parole 
arrangements) were implement¬ 
ed immediately, what assess¬ 
ment H the Government 
made of the effect on the 
□umber of men and women 
serving custodial sentences? 

If parole were only given 
when half the sentence had been 
served, the prison population 
would rise by 4,000. It would be 
absurd if the first effect of the 
White Paper was to increase the 
prison population. 

When the Government made 
its statement on compensation 
it should, as an absolute mini¬ 
mum, replace the right to 
compensation that was reduced 
or removed by the C riminal 
Justice Act, 198B. 

Changes that bad been made 
in the threshold for those en¬ 
titled to claim compensation for 


violent crime bad removed that 
right from about 10,000 people a 
year. The Government should 
ratify the European Convention 
for victims of violent crime. 

The Government's task was 
to reduce both crime and the 
prison population from their 
present record levels. The real 
test of its determination to do SO/ 

was the courage with which it 
put the principles in the White 
Paper into practice. 


Mr WaddmgtOn said that the 
Government was determined to 
make sentences served closer to 
the the ones that were passed by 
ensuring that everyone served at 
least SO per cent. 

The Opposition had shrunk 
from that added protection to 
the public and was determined 
to stick to the policy of offend¬ 
ers, even violent ones, being 
released into community after 
serving only a third of their 
science. 

The tnison population was 
not at record levels; it had ftllen 
by 2,500 in the past 12 months 
as a result of judges responding 
to calls to send fewer people to 
prison. 

The Government did not 
believe that an elaborate struc¬ 
ture, such as a sentencing coun¬ 
cil interfering in judicial dis¬ 
cretion, was the right course. 
Mandatory sentences could re¬ 
sult in for longer sentences. 

No one had been able to make 
a precise estimate of the effects 
of the new package. But the 
Government looked to the 
future with confidence and in 
the belief that it would have 
continuing downward effect on 
the raison population. 


Mr John Wheeler (West¬ 
minster North, C), a former 
prison governor, said that the 
proposals were among the most 
radical and practical in almost 
50 years. Among other things, 
hooligans would at last be dealt 
with in an accountable way, as 
the public wanted. 

Mr Robert Madennan, Lib¬ 
eral Democrat spokesman on 


home affaire, said that there was 
much to welcome in the White 
Paper in its dear attempt to 
distinguish between serious 
crimes and less serious crimes 
which were unsuitable for cus¬ 
todial treatment. That was a big 
step in penal policy. 

However, many would have 
some doubt about the efficacyof 
the proposed measures. The 
Court of Appeal guidelines had 
proved ineffective in prodnciiig 
consistency in sentencing and in 
reducing the extraordinarily 
long sentences as compared with 
those in other countries. Mr 
Waddington should not set his 
mind againq a sentencing coun¬ 
cil and sentencing guideunes if 
the proposed measures did not 
achieve the results sought 

Mr Waddingtoa said tbal be 
did not think that a new body 
would achieve more than the 
present system had. He under¬ 
stood that a sentencing coond) 
would merely lay down guide¬ 
lines on app rop ria te sentences 
for particular categories of 
offences. 

Credit must be given to the 
judges. Sentencing practice, 
particularly with regard to 
young offenders, had been 
changed, and that was a reason 
for the fall in the prison 
population. 

Mr Steven Norris (Epping 
Forest. Q said that there could 
be no more powerful weapon to 
reduce criminality than Imping 
parents* rights with respon¬ 
sibilities. 

Mr Waddington said that 
parents had the first opportunity 
to inculcate into children a sense 
of right and wrora and respect 
for the property of others. 

Mr Jade Ashley (Stoke-on- 
Trent South. Lab) welcomed the 
intention to give tougher treat¬ 
ment to those guilty of violent 
crime. He hoped that those 
guilty of violent rape would get 
the toughest treatment of alL 
The Criminal Injuries Compen¬ 
sation Board bad proved 
pathetically inadequate to its 

taclf 



Mr Austin MitaheD (left) with Radui _ 
Centre in London, yesterday, at the start of I 


Mr Frank Field at the Queen Elizabeth H Conference 
indnstiy drive to bey British-made dotting and shoes.- 


Mr Waddington said that the 
board's powers had recently 
been extended. It could make 
compensation awards to those 
suffering shock in some cases, 
and to women who decided to 
have children after a rape. 
Efforts were continually being 
made to extend the remedies for 
victims of crime. 


White Paper include measures 
to deal with football hooli¬ 
ganism? 


Mr John. Greanray (Ryedale, 
C) said that the concept of the 
punishment fitting the crime 
and his policy of getting tough 
with violent offenders would be 
popular with the public. Did the 


Mr Waddingtoa said that 
curfew orders monitored by 
electronic tagging might be 
applied. 

Mr Iwor Stanbrook (Orping¬ 
ton, o congratulated Mr 
Waddington on the proposals, 
but said that it would be very 
undesirable if the Government 
were to fetter judicial discretion 
in sentencing and produce a 
system of mandatory sen¬ 
tencing. 


Mr Jacques Arnold (Grave- 
sham, C) asked for an assurance 
that the community penalties 
would be tough on hooligans. 
Would they be put to work 
doing something useful? 

Mr Waddington: We are 
going to lay down national 
giiifteling* for community ser¬ 
vice so that there is consistency. 
I can assure him that we have in 
min d that community service 
should be tough and de¬ 
manding. 

Lord Wimttesham, page 14 
Leading article, page 15 


Mackay pledge on 


embryo research 


The Government is to consider 
how to meet anxieties about the 
protection of an embryo in its 
first 30 hours, after a decision 
ha* been on *h^ general 
issue of whether experiments 
should be permitted on embryos 
at any stage. 

Dining the committee stage of 
the Human Fertilisation and 
Embryology Bill in the House of 
Lords, Lord Mackay of Clash- 
fern, the Lord Chancellor, said 
that the Government would 
consider in the light of the 
decision on research whether 
the controls in the Bill for the 
period before the two-cefl zygote 
stage were sufficient and would 
decide whether to introduce its 
own amendment. 

Lady EDes (Q moved an 
amendment to define an em¬ 
bryo as existing from the time 
when die sperm completed 
penetration of the egg rather 
than, as in the Bill, from the first 
cell division to creates two-cell 
zygote. 

She said that the amendment 
would not affect a later decision 
on whether to ban or permit 
experiments on embryos. It was 
not a wrecking amendment, but 
sought to ensure that the Gov¬ 
ernment coranrinnent that both 
Houses should have a free vote 
on research was fully honoured. 

The Bill defined an embryo as 
beginning with the appearance 
of a two-cell zygote, but that was 
about 30 hours after the sperm 
entered the egg. 

Under the Bill as it now stood, 
if research on embryos were not 
permitted, it would not be 
permitted from the two-cell 
zygote stage. 

The amendment would dose 
this 30-hour gap. 

Lord Mackay of Oashfem 
agreed that the amendment 
would not affect the later debate 
on banning research. He said 
that the Bill defined an embryo 
by the point when the process of 
fertilization was completed with 
the appearance of the two-cell 
zygote. 

He recognized Lady Elles's 
concern that that would leave 
the embryo u n p ro tect e d for 
about twenty-four hours. Scien¬ 
tifically, from the time when 


HOUSE OF LORDS 


a 


h uman sper m and ova were 
mixed there were two periods 
before the appearance of the 
two-cell zygote when it was 
possible to teQ by observation 
alone whether penet rati on had 
occurred, interspersed with peri¬ 
ods when that was not observ¬ 
able. A final period of un¬ 
certainty was followed by 
division into a two-cell zygote. 
Rom then it was always appar¬ 
ent that fertilization had Deco 
completed. 

They should not anticipate 
the decision on research, but be 
recognized the fear that the 
definition of embryo might 
leave uncontrolled for about 
twenty-four hours any research 
in vitro up to the two-cell zygote 
stage. No one would be allowed 
to create embryos except under 
licencei If research were banned, 
the Bill would prevent research 
projects to create two-cell zy¬ 
gotes. 

Lord Ennals, from the Oppo¬ 
sition front bench, said ember 
that on this issue he spoke only 
for himself! The time to look at 
this amendment was after the 
vote on research and on report. 
It would be unwise to be pushed 
into a new definition, particu¬ 
larly one with difficulties. 

The Duke of Norfolk (O said 
that the pro-life group wanted 
no experiments from fertiliza¬ 
tion onwards. Experiments on 
drugs to prevent fertilization 
and aborofadents might be 
allowed unless the Bill defined 
more accurately when life 
began. “As tbe Bill stands, 
anyone could produce embryos 
and perform any kind of re¬ 
search upon them without a 
licence so long as they were 
destroyed before the two-cefl 
zygote stage." 

Lord Adrian (lad) said that if 
research were not ba nne d, then 
it would be important that the 
period of 30 hours be covered 

Lady EDes said that in the 
light of the Lord Chabceflors’s 
promise to consider the matter 
on repo r t she would withdraw 
the amendment. 


Calm down, Thatcher tells Kinnock 


An angry Mr Neil Kinnock wm admon¬ 
ished Ey the Prime Minister at question 
time when be attacked her over the 
“tansy dear that a third of ddldrea 
mt getting in the nation’s schools. 

He was jeered by Conservative back¬ 
benchers and Mrs Tha t ch er said that 
she was glad that the inspectors whose 
report he was quoting dealt more calmly 
with the subject than he. She a c cused 
him of being >wp w B«>wi and not 
listening to her answers. 

Mr Kinnock opened the 
when he asked if she accepted die 
condasioas of die inspectors* report 
which stated that a third of school 
children were netting a raw deaL “Does 
she not consider that to be a daunting 
indktmest of her Gowerement?’ 

Mrs Thatcher stM that she had not the 
report and had read it vny carefully. It 
rave a better summa ry man had Mr 
KnmoclL 

It said: The overall picture b of a 
service in which most of what b done b 
of a reasonable gratify or better. Thb b 
a sound basis for improvement and 
change and timid be recognized as 


EDUCATION REPORT 


such. The report had gone on to say that 
there were some things that were wrong 
and needed to be remedied (Labour 
mtenuptieas), hot across the schools 
mspected, 7® to 80 per cent of the work 
seen was adjudged to be satisfactory or 
better. 

“Roughly one-third of aD Inch were 
judged good or vcryjgood. That b not tbe 
profile m a service m peat difficulty." 

Mr Kinnock asked if she realized what 
she was realty saying. That because in 
t w o -t h ird s of cases things were not bad 
that somehow justified the fact that in 
one-thM of cases they were tansy. In 30 
per cent of cases papils were getting a 
raw deaL “If she b going to try to get at 
the troth, why doesn’t she go for the 
whole truth?” 

Mrs Thatcher said that the words she 
had used were not Iters but these of the 
inspectors. 9* had accepted that there 
were stiD things that needed to be done. 

More was being spent on education 


per papa than ever before, there were 
more teachers in proportion to papils 
than ever before, tire new national 
carricalnm had been warmly praised in 
the inspectors' report. The teachers' pay 
se tttan eut would give nprrisl help to 
teachers whore they were needed, 
particularly In the shortage subjects. 

An extra £400 aiiDion in capital 
support was being provided for further 
developments m schools. 

Mr Kinnock: The Prime Minister 
speaks of a good report. It jast stows 
how easily she b satisfied by die 
mistreatment of other people's children. 
She speaks of reforms. Which of her 
reforms win provide mathematics, sci¬ 
ence, t ec hn o l o gy and language teachers 
where they are mated, or whore, as the 
report recognizes, they are inadqnatdy 
trained? 

Which of her reforms ... ( fatt e n s p - 
tians from Conservative backbenchers) 
They do not even send their children to 
maiutamed schools (Labour cheers). 

Which of her reforms are going to 
provide books in libraries where there 
are no books? Which are going to 


provide equipment hi the laboratories 
where there b no equipment? Which of 

her reforms will raise the morale of the 
teaching force and stop buffings am¬ 
bling? 

Afn nuctolm (hd tkhgiedim 
fayJ their task more calmly **»■«■ Mr 
Km nock. More money is being spent per 
pupil in real toms than ever before. 
There are more teachers in pr op or tion to 
children than ever before. There is a very 
good new teac hers* pay settlement which 
wiD help to get those teachers in short 
ssppty in partkitiar sabjects. 

There b a new national antarinm. 
The inspectors' report says that, across 
schools of aff types, impleme n t ati on of 
tbe national carmtan b b eginning to 
bring about general and specific 
imp ro vem ents. 

Yes, of comae there are still things to 
be done. There always win be, but it 
takes time, when Opposition MPls ask 
questions in a very temperamental way 
and refine to listen to the answers. The 
education service b in for better shape 
than ever before. 

Leading article, page 15 


Consumer protection move withdrawn 


Tbe committee stage of the 
Courts and Legal Services Bill 
was concluded in the House of 
Lotds early on Tuesday after six 
days of consideration. 

An Opposition amendment, 
designed to give extra consumer 
protection over house-buying 
services, was withdrawn after a 
short debate. 

Lord Misbcoo, for the Oppo¬ 
sition, moving tbe amendment, 
said that it would prevent a 
lender, or any associate, charg¬ 
ing more for a particular service 
to a borrower who did not 
require other services, such as 
financial ones. He said that it 
would ensure that b or r ow ers 
would not be charged more than 
someone who had obtained all 
the services. 

Lord Mackay of Cbuhfern, 
Lord Chancellor, opposing tbe 
amendment, said that it was not 
as attractive as it might seem. It 
wonld restrict tbe offering of 
package deals to borrowers at a 
discount. Provided that there 
was no element of coercion or 
conditionality, a package of 
services could benefit the bor¬ 


rower and the lender. Package 
deals could be in tbe interests of 
the customer. 

Lady Gardner of Poikes (C) 
said that, provided there was no 
compulsion on the parties, it 
was right that there should be a 
free market If people wished to 
avail themselves of services 
from only one source, she 
added, they should be free to do 
so. 

• Other speeches in the debate, 
reported in later editions yes¬ 
terday. included the following: 

Lord HaHsham of St Marylr- 
bone, a former Lord Chancellor 
This is an evil thing and it can 
only be described as evil and 
corrupt to an honourable 
profession. 

“If you make it pay to be 
dishonest, people will become 
dishonest... and that is what 
the pr o posal will do.” 

Conditional fees, be said, 
were no substitute for the legal 
aid system. 

“The Scots will not have 
anything to do with this evil 
thing. Less than 1 percent ofthe 
cases arc fought on this basis." 


HOUSE OF LORDS 


The Scots could not “touch it 
with a bargepole". 

Lord Mishcoo. an Opposition 
spokesman on legal affairs, said 
that, without a gram of legal aid, 
70 per cent of the population 
could not face a long civil case. 
Tbe Opposition pleaded with 
the Government not to make a 
mockery of the ideal that the 
courts were open to all. The 
proposal must not be a sub¬ 
stitute for legal aid. 

Lord Donaldson of Lymingtoa 
(Ind)said that the clause was not 
in the interests of the client as a 
consumer. 

Lord Morris (O said that 90 
per cent of people thought it a 
positive evil that the lawyer had 
no financial interest in the case. 
Over and over again they felt 
that that meant that he had little 
or no reason to exert himself. 
People spoke of the casual 
attitude of their legal repre¬ 
sentatives in cases, workers in 
magistrates’ courts and in other 


courts believed strongly that a 
financial interest, properly 
geared, would concentrate the 
mind of lawyers much more. 

The Lord Chancellor, Lord 
Mackay of Gash fern, said that 
this clause was not a substitute 
for legal aid. It would be no part 
of the conditions required of an 
applicant for legal aid that he 
should try first for a conditional- 
fee arrangement. 

He was not seeking in the 
clause to do anything more than 
make such agreements possible. 
There was still full room for the 
professional bodies to make 
detailed rules about what pre¬ 
cisely would happen. 

The clause made it lawful to 
have a conditional-fee agree¬ 
ment, related to the actual fee, 
with an “uplift", which he had 
described in the White Paper as 
modest. 

From the moral point of view, 
there _ seemed to him no 
objection. 

Such a right over and above 
legal aid struck him as a 
valuable one for the client. The 
agreement related to work done 


and not, as in America, to tbe 
amount of damages. The 


arrangement would include, so 
far as the professional rules were 
concerned, the requirement that 
the client had a reasonable case. 

Lord Misbcon asked if he 
would accept an amendment 
calling for a legal-aid authority 
not to lake into account such an 
agreement when deciding on 
whether to give legal aid. 

. Lord Mackay agreed in prin¬ 
ciple (the amendment was later 
accepted without a vole.). 

The clause was carried by 136 
votes to 56 — Government 
majority, 80 . 

• CORRECTION: The report 
on Friday of the committee 
stage should have said that Lord 
Mishcon’s successful amend¬ 
ment was to ensure that institu- 
nooal conveyancers would have 
to abide by the same rules on 
disclosure and accounting for 
commissions as now apply to 
MHiatore. He pressed the issue 
to a vote after foiling to be 
^Jfsffed by the Lord Chan- 
celiors assurances of con¬ 
sultation on the issue. 


Bill would 
tackle 


car fraud 


Dishonesty and fraud were 
rife in tbe motor trade and the 
time was long overdue 
when they should be tackled 
by legislation, Mr Gareth 
Wardell (Gower, Lab) said. 

He was given leave 
under tbe 10-minute rule to 


introduce tbe Motor Trade 
(Consumer Protection) BilL It 
would give trading-stan¬ 
dards officers the power to in¬ 
spect used cars for sale on 
garage forecourts. He said that 
each year 7.5 million 
secondhand cars were sold. 


Protest over 


expulsions 


Tbe Government had told 
South Africa that it r egretted 
the expulsion of Mr Paul 
Weaver, of Today, and Mr 
Gareth Furby, of Indepen¬ 
dent Radio News. Mrs 
Thatcher said at questions. 

Mr Paddy Ashdown, 
leader of tbe Social Demo¬ 
crats, protesting about the 
expulsions, said that it was 
time, not to rriiguish sanc¬ 
tions, but to maintain inter¬ 
national action until 
democracy was established. 


Passports 
in Berlin 


British passport holders 
are unable to cross to East 
Berlin through tbe 
Brandenbeig Gate, Mr Wil¬ 
liam Powell (Corby, Q 
said at question time. He told 
MP$ that be had tried to 
cross there yesterday. 

Border guards had 
courteously directed him to 
Checkpoint Charlie be¬ 
cause people from this coun¬ 
try were only able to cross 
under the treaty signed in 
1948. He called for the 
arrangements to be revised. 


Homeless aid 


Government departments 
are looking at how govern¬ 
ment policies work to¬ 
gether to ensure that 
appropriate assistance is 
available for homeless people, 
Mr Christopher Cbope, 

Under Secretary of State for -v 
the Environment, said in a 
Commons written reply. 

Parliament today 

Commons (2.30): Ques¬ 
tions: Foreign and Common¬ 
wealth Office. Motions on 
social security benefits and ■ 
regulations. 

tards (130): Debate on 
the role ofthe free market 
economy. 


Royal Navy debate 


Wrens will sail with the fleet 


report of later 
tin thetuauud Commons 
on the Royal Nary ap¬ 
peared in later editions 
yesterday. 

The breaking of generations 
of Royal Navy tradition mu 
announced by Mr Archie 
HamOton, Mhtisnr of State for 
the Armed Forces, when he told 
MPs that women would to fixture 
be able to serve on board Royal 
Nary warships. 

Women would serve in a wide 
range of ships, indndfaig the 
carriers and amphibious ships, 
he said, when winding ap the 
debate. A team had been ap- 
posited lo plan an early setae- 
tion and modification of vessels. 
Tbe aim was for the first Wrens 
to be em ba rk ed by the end of the 
year. 

Earlier. Mr Jonathan Sayecd 
(BristolEastQbad urged him 

■ g ii nd making sock an an¬ 
nouncement, saying that to bare 

women on board ship would 
upset sailors'wives- 

Mr Sorted said that families 
and particularly wives believed 
that to have women operating at 
sea, in cramped conditions for a 


long time, would put additional 
pressures on tbe men - and on 
tbrir wives. Befog cooped up in a 
small vessel created jealousies 
and tension s. 

Mr Menzus Campbell, Liber¬ 
al Democrat defence spokes¬ 
man, said that be was against 
any redaction in the fleet of SO 
frigates and destroyers as a 
result of arms redactions in 
other directions. 

If troops were withdrawn from 
mi inland Europe some means of 
redeployment woaU be required 
in times of an emergency. That 
would ensnre that the Navy 
coatinoed to [day an important 
role. 

Mr Anthony Nelson (Chich¬ 
ester, C) said that a defence 
review of some kind would 
certainly be necessary. “I 
befieve we should not pot of? for 
long the start of that revi e w. It 
will take time, bat uy shift ha 
oor procurement or change in 
combers in the armed forces wfll 
necessarily take time as wdL" 

Mr Michael Woodcack(fJksr 
mere Pert and Nesfon, C) said 
that it was wro ng and wasteful 
for women to be prevented from 



Mr Hamilton: Breaking the 

tradition of generations. 

carrying oat tasks in the Navy 
that they were willing to per¬ 
form. Almost aD Wrens wanted 
to go to sea. 

Mr Hamilton, aanoa n d ug the 
decision to employ Wrens in 


surface ships, said that it had 
ben tak e n against a back- 
pwmd of concern about the 
Royal Navy's future nmtnmg. 
Tbe nature of naval operations 
meant that Wrens would be 
Ifafrfe to serve in combat “This 
represents a change in the long¬ 
stan d in g policy that women 
sbmild not undertake service 
deties that may mdude combat. 

“We nave concluded that to 
•flewPt ft categorize ships as 
combat* and k ooa-combat' 
would be artificial and mis lea d- 
inn ... when nil ships wffl be 
UMie to serve fa potentially 

•Mgenws waters." 

Preseu plans did not extend 
to submarines, bat early studies 
would be made into employing 
women as naval aircrew and in 
^ topi Marines. Studies 
wouw also establish bow women 
OMW serve at sea in ships of the 
Royal Fleet Anbury. 

Wrens would be asked to 
TOtan teer for sea service. 

In the Dutch Nary, where 
wwen smed on board shin, a 
tot line had been installed so 
that wnts were able to ring no 
and find ont what was going on. 


Labour offers policy changes 

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By Nicholas Wood 
Political Correspondent 


INDUSTRY 


Labour is p re pa red to alter its policy review 
in the light ofthe opinions of businessmen. 
Mr Neu Kinnock indicated yesterday at 
the launch of a campaign aimed at 
enhancing the credibility of its industrial 
policies. 

In a move highlighting the Opposition's 
desire lo rid itself ofthe ami-business image 
of the early 1980s, the Labour leader said 
that he was prepared to be flexible over his 
party’s plans for levy on firms to pay for 
training. 

Tbe plans are opposed by the Confedera¬ 
tion of British Industry. 

He also defended his policies for a 
partnership with industry against the 
accusation that they were a rehash of the 
foiled ideas of tbe Wilson Administration 


years. 

He said iha,t if such policies had been 
followed over the past 25 years. Britain 
might not now he lagging behind countries 
that had stuck to policies of regional 
development, investment support and 
training. . . , 

“Any system, whether it is levy and 
rebate, which we favour in the absence of a 
better alternative, or training credits (fa¬ 
voured by the Confederation of British 
Industry) or a combination of the systems 
that are in existence elsewhere id the 
European Community would recommend 
itsefflo us. .... . _ . 

“We want to get the job done with the 


least bureaucracy and the best product 
possible. 

“So far. we bdieye that the levy system, 
working on the German modeC nxom- 
mends itself most™" 

Mr Kinnock’s readiness to reconsider the 
mechanism for his training policies con¬ 
trasts with the policy review, which 
commits the party to setting up a nation al 
training fund paid for by a payroll levy of 
0.5 per cent, the taxpayer and European 
Community foods. 

Mr Kinnock, who has already held a 
number of private meetings with indus¬ 
trialists, announced a scries of “business 
Semi uara” at which industrialists would be 
invited lo “scrutinize and bring their ideas 
and experience to bear on tbe policy 
approach presented by our policy review" 

A key objective would be sec if there were 
improvements to be made to the present 
proposals, he said. 

Meanwhile, Mr Nicholas Ridley tbe 
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 
said that Labour's plans for a “little bit or 
nationalization, intervention, economic 
pfenning and extra taxation were a caU fora 
“little bit of what foiled in Eastern Europe". 

Mr Gordon Brown, the Opposition's 
chief trade and industry spokesman, gave 
more details of the Industry 2000 seminars 
to be fadd in the North-west, the Midlands, 


East Anglia and Newcastle over the next' 
two month*. " 

He said; “We are entering into the most ' 
sa ** a j n *d dialogue with industry that a 
political party has been able to do for many 
years. 

2* believe that we are tenting a new - 
national(consensus that involves a partner-^ 
SJH“L coacc,,t| ate3 on a sJrifls gap, a 
gap ’ a scicnce OT> affecting 

fiJ r ^5i^ la ? ccovcr rote* sup port services - ' 

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^“gdomwill be the topics to be disssed^ 
«tne seminars. 


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“Mfor better job training. 

Iae sc discussions will inform the. 
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torinofl of Eastern 

- Europe, only 

-Albania clings 

# stubbornly to oid - 
: style Marxism. 

; But behind the ~ 
; repression 
and the obsessiv e. 

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; outside 
E influences, its 
■«¥ r people seem 
■curiously content 
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to the last outpost 

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■ find out why 



and intellectual claustrophobia is 
deeply o p press i ve. If the people 
appear, as they do, to take die 
obtrusive presence of armed 
police and plain-clothes security 
agents as a matter of course, their 
private feelings may be very 
different. But one cannot necessar¬ 
ily assume that'they are nursing 
urgent feelings of resentment. 

The official martin malfft the 
most of the tumults in the socialist 
world. Kosovo took up the greater 
part of the television news when¬ 
ever I watched. Graphic film from 
Azerbaijan, showing corpses in the 
snow and a Muslim militant 
passionately kissing his Koran, 
rubbed in a message congenial to a 
xenophobic, atheist regime. 


A n Albanian official 
enthusiastically out¬ 
lined to me the beset¬ 
ting evils of capitalism: 
unemployment, crime, 
drugs, and (of course) encroach¬ 
ments on the sovereignty of small 
cations. It was an indictment not 
without substance. Asked whether 
Albanians do not find it humiliat¬ 
ing to be locked away from the 
outride world by the last barbed 
wire Iron Curiam in Europe, he 
replied: “Suppose the people in 
the bouse next to yours fight and 
take drugs — wouldn't you put up 
a fence to keep your children away 
from them?” 

Whether or not they are content 
to have their government think of 
them as children, Albanians are 
not cut off from direct knowledge 
of the outride world. Spindly 
television aerials bristle along the 

q'ty yky lines, and reach hig h afvwft 
the pantiled roofs of single-storey 
cottages in the villages of the 
coastal plain. In many cramped 
dwellings, the television set must 
be by fer the most splendid fur¬ 
nishing in the borne. Assembled in 
Albania from imported parts (paid 
for in scarce hard currency), each 
set costs the equivalent of six 
months’ salary for most workers. 

The aerials reach high to catch 
the signal from distant Italian, 
Yugoslav or Greek stations. News, 
movies, fashion shows, and game 
shows awarding dazzling con¬ 
sumer goodies as prizes, flit before 
the eyes of workers on state farms 
as they sit wearily after a day with 
the shovel or the hoe. 

The regime has chosen to 
tolerate this peephole into the 
outside world and its temptations. 
Most Albanians musl gain a dear 
perspective on the choice that 
their rulers have made for them — 
a choice of stability, conformity 
and the ample life as a gaiwa 
change, pluralism, affluence and 
risk. 

How fully they endorse that 
choice is hard to guess, when the 
apparatus of state control is so all- 
pervasive. But there can be little 
doubt that they are aware of the 
issues. 


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E astern Europe’s last 
domi no is still standing, 
after alL As communist 
regimes tumble an the 
way from the Rahir to 
the Black Sea, commentators have 
hastened to extrapolate the trend 
to Albania, the poorest, harshest 
regime of aD, the last redoubt of 
unabashed Stalinism. In neigh¬ 
bouring Yugodavia, the first com¬ 
munist country to break free of 
Stalin's domination, repots were 

h n mwitlact mfflithnf riKfwkyiwMl 
repression just across the border. 

! Ironically, it is Yugoslavia 
which now feces disorder — 
verging on civil war - in its 
province of Kosovo, where almost 
nine out of 10 of the population 
are e thnic Albanians. Dozens are . 
reported to have died in dastos 
with riot police, and last week the 
tanks rolled in. The red flag of 
Albania, with its . black, two- 
beaded eagle, is flaunted by 
Kosovo dissidents with, the same 
fervour as the former banners of 
Estonia, the Ukraine »n<l even of 
(he Tsais are brandished by 
demonstrators in other parts of 
Eastern Europe. 

; Meanwhile, Albania preserves a 
stoic and wary calm, as far as I 


could judge on a recent 500-mile 
journey through the sooth and 
centre of the country. Even in the 
capital, Tirana, the crowds taking 
their evening promenade seemed 
outwardly contented with their 
lot, at a moment when fresh 
reporis of widespread shooting 
there appeared in the Greek Press. 

In fin lwMrtifhl m pimlain 

stronghold of Gjirokaster, in the 
heart of the allegedly repressed 
Greek minority community, the 
townspeople seemed cheerful as 
they rfwttnd and whistled in the 
cobbled s tre ets, or wailed their 
tom to be shaved with a cut-throat 
razor in the centre of local male 
gossip, the barber's shop. 

According to eye-witnesses, the 
disorients* cry in Kosovo is: 
“Democracy!” It is a tragic para¬ 
dox that Yugoslavia, which used 
to be the least oppre s sive state m 
Eastern Europe, has been so split 
by ethnic disoord that an embat¬ 
tled minority can identify democ¬ 
racy; even rhetorically, with the 
most undemocratic regime in the 
region. 

The same paradox was apparent 
last year when the Moldavian 
minority within the Soviet Union 
called for umty with their kinsmen 


in Romania even while Ro mania 
was still in the grip of modern 
Europe's most vicious dictator¬ 
ship. Last month, Soviet 
Azerbaijanis tore down the fron¬ 
tier fence which separated them 
from their fellow-Muslims in the 
grim theocracy of Iran. Blood is 
proving to be thicker than the 
water of ideology all through the 
outlying regions of Stalin’s dis¬ 
integrating empire. 

In the last resort, blood is 
probably a more relevant factor 
than ideology in explaining the 
anomalous durability of the Alba¬ 
nian regime, in its timewarp of the 
1940s. The verbiage of Marxist- 
Leninist ideology is ubiquitous — 
printed in stark red and white on 
b uilding s and hoardings, {ticked 
out in while stones across 
mountainsides in letters 20ft hi g h , 
and the only merchandise in what 
must be the most depressing 
bookshops in the universe. But the 
underlying significance of the 
message is akin to that expressed 
in the name of the IRA’s political 
front, Sizm Fein — “Ourselves 
Alone”. 

Independence is the central 
political issue in Albania. The 
obsessive suspicion towards all 


outside influences which moti¬ 
vated Enver Hoxha, its leader for 
40 years until his death in 1985, 
looks less like paranoia when one 
remembers that at different times 
in the 40 years before that, Albania 
had been partly or wholly under 
the control of no fewer than seven 
outride powers. Self-rule had ex¬ 
isted only briefly, and democracy 
not atafl. 

H oxha’s reign was one 
long story of ties bro¬ 
ken off with allies be 
suspected of growing 
too domineering. His 
fear of being beholden was so ex¬ 
treme that he wrote a ban on for¬ 
eign indebtedness into the nation¬ 
al constitution. He ordered the 
construction of thousands of con¬ 
crete machine-gun emplacements, 
turning the whole country into a 
fantas tic pattern of Maginot lines. 
Religion, a long-standing source of 
internal division,-was summarily- 
suppressed. 

In effect, the regime chose to be 
separate, whatever the conse¬ 
quences — to be poor rather than 
dependent Hoxha’s successors, 
more pragmatic in their attitude 
towards outward contacts, have 


risked only slight relaxations In 
the apparatus of internal control. 
While the rest of Europe has 
moved towards affluence, Albania 
has been left behind in a self- 
sufficient poverty which is now 
only paralleled in the Third 
World. Per capita, even Yugo¬ 
slavia’s gross national product is 
more than twice as large as 
Albania’s. That of Greece, poorest 
member of the EC, is four times as 
large. In the per capita league, 
Albania comes a little way behind 
Turkey and a little way ahead of 
Egypt. 

For visitors, this can be pic¬ 
turesque. In some respects, 
Thomas Hardy would find the 
agriculture antiquated. The ox¬ 
cart is a commoner sight on 
country roads than the motor-car. 
Even in January, the fields are 
dotted not only with pill-boxes bat 
also with troops of women in 
white head-scarves and brightly- 
coloured dresses, digging canots 
or scratching at the soil with hoes. 
The village wash is done in a 
stream, the dirt beaten out of the 
clothes as if soap had never been 
invented. Women cany firewood 
back to the village, or balance 
heavy jars on their heads. When 


their work is done they sink down, 
pinched and weary, in attitudes of 
complete physiol exhaustion. 
Three-fifths of the population live 
on the land: the Industrial Revolu¬ 
tion has scarcely arrived. 

Even in the towns, the rhythm 
of life appears dulling . Lowry-like 
multitudes of walking figures 
throng Tirana's immense central 
square in the rash-boor, slowly 
making their way to work. In town 
and country alike, long hours are 
spent silting at the roadside in an 
almost oriental patience, waiting 
to be taken to wherever one has 
been ordered toga 

The people do not live in 
squalor. The necessities of life are 
available, and Iiwwm tax 

does not exist (the exchequer is 
funded from the earnings of 
Albania’s rich mineral resources, 
which alone have made the whole 
experiment possible). Conditions 
have improved perceptibly over 
the past 10 years. Prices and 
earnings are tightly controlled, 
and the black market fiercely 
suppressed, so that there is little to 
be gained by bustling about. 
Nobody can become really rich, 
but nobody need be indigent. 

To visitors, the sense of physical 


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Date with terror in a 
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Following last week’s tele¬ 
vision showing of Graham 
Greene’s Brighton Rock with 
the young Richard Attenbor¬ 
ough playing the psychopathic 
gangster Pinkie, Mr Greene 
Has agreed to write a follow-up 
novel set in today’s more well- 
to-do Brighton. A terrifying 
look at the dinner party bully- 
boys who are now terrorizing 

7s the city, Brighton Wok is a 
Savage indiament of the social 
mores of the coastal media 
gangs. Richard Attenborough 
again stars as Dickie, the 
gangleader who visits fear 
Upon a neighbourhood with his 
invitations to drop by for a 
really super, super time with 
some very dear and lovely 
friends: 

Haip knew, before he had been 
in Brighton three hours, that 
pickie planned to ask him to 
drinkie-poos. The Jacuzzi in 
die five-star hotel gushed and 
Spewed like an abscess jetting 
poison through the nerve. The 
room-service button, an em¬ 
blem of deep loneliness on an 
expanse of stippled wall, 
stared back at him like a one- 
eyed man who happened to be 
wearing a stippled suit. The 
telephone lay silent, dead as 
the corpse of Joseph of Arima- 
thea, or even deader. 

On the floor, the strands of 

* the thick-pile carpet looked 

* like so many lost souls seeking 
refuge from eternity in the 
oblivion of the crowd. The 
remote-control box lay sepa¬ 
rate from the colour tele¬ 
vision, a sinner yearning tor 
redemption. 

There was a knock on toe 
door. And then another. For 
God’s sake, no. Hale 
thought. He recogwzed the 
style at once. Wh**; 
tences. Gel this short, ne 
thought, “You know. Some¬ 
thing is about to. Happen. 

Dickie, he knew, was out to 

get him. But surely te wodd 
never find him here? Blimey 
ducks, any old 

tlluvaduck, me oW 

was the maid, her bosom 
swelling like two robed pnt»B 
in genuflexion. Something 
about the nuance of her speecn 
told Hale that Her Creator had 
seen to it that she was working 
class. HaJe watched as she 
straightened the gposedown 



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duvet until it lay on the bed 
like snow on a stifl-wann 
grave. 

Dickie fingered the TwjgleL 
With a single flick of his wrist, 
he snapped it in two. He felt 
nothing for it at all. It was like 
a biscuit in his hands; some¬ 
thing to break, to bile, to eat 
He went down the shops. As 
he passed, people scurried into 
the open doors of a green¬ 
grocer. But they discovered 
too late that even the biggest 
aubergine afforded them no 
protection. “Darling! You’re 
looking DIVINE. Just 
ADORED your last movie. 
You MUST drop round this 
evening. SUPER! Big kiss!" 
Dickie issued compliments 
with ruthless speed. He only 
had to open his mouth and 
you were already invited to a 
party. A man wasn’t able to 
think up an excuse until it was 
too late. Venite adoremus . 
venite adoremus , venite 
adoremus. ... _ 

“Blimey O’Reilly”, fancy 
that”, “Down at the old Bull 
and Bush”, “Well I never”. 
The c easeless hum of ordinary 
people conversing with one 
another gave Dickie a strange 
feeling of something like guilt 

He felt in bis heart toe 
prowling presence of 
for all those countless million 
souls who could never — not 
ever — come to his parties. 

A deep melancholy over¬ 
took his conscience as he 
thought of Hale. He must not 
remain uninvited; but 
could be possibly re«h him. 
Above him, swooping and 
a surplice on a 


washing line, a lone seagnfl 
was caught short Its deposit 
landed on Dickie’s head like 
an offering from heaven, if 
there was a heaven. He 
reached for it with his hand. It 
was as white as ash, or even a 
bit whiter. 

The Brighton seafront ex¬ 
tended before Dickie like the 
train of a bridal gown that has 
been employed once too often 
as a car-rag. Dickie had be¬ 
lieved once, he had believed in 
Three Persons in One Alliance 
as nobody else had. Owen, 
Steel, Jenkins. He had wor¬ 
shipped them with a kind of 
pride, a kind of pity, but none 
of the lovies out there had 
voted for them and now they 
were no more. The Time Has 
Come. Tempos venit. How 
like empty slogans those be¬ 
liefs now seemed! 

“My old man said carry the 
can”, *Tm all right Jack”, 
“Bloomin' 'eck, mate”. Dickie 
brushed past the ordinary 
people and entered the tele¬ 
phone box, its paint peeling 
like ageing lipstick on a cardi¬ 
nal’s cloak. Speaking in a low 
voice for fear it might carry, he 
gave his message up to Hale’s 
hotel Ansaphone. 

“Bless you, lovey. Da da 
DO come to a party tonight if 
at all poss. There’s a love. 
Simply can’t WAIT to see you. 
Byeeee!” 


“No one can turn away from 
the blinding love of Dickie,” 
murmured the elderly priest 
from behind the grate of the 
confessional. “Dickie’s love is 
everywhere and all-powerful 
my child.” 

“But, Father, 1 am fearful of 
his superlatives. I shy away 
from bis overwhelming com¬ 
pliments. 1 am embarrassed 
by his abundant overstate¬ 
ment I cannot bring myself to 
attend at his party,” Hale said. 
“So far I have managed to 
avoid him.” 

“If he wants you.” said the 
elderly priest, “he will get you 
in the end.” 

“But he has not got me yet,” 
thought Hale receiving ab¬ 
solution, “and he never will" 
He walked rapidly back to¬ 
wards his hotel room, and the 
Ansaphone, towards the worst 
horror of all 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 



TIMES 

DIARY 


Nigel Williamson 


I s Sylvia Heal, Labour’s candidate in 
Mid-Staffordshire, a unilateralist or not? 
The Tories, 1 hear, are determined to 
make the question an issue in the campaign. 
What is common knowledge is that Mrs 
Heal is a former member of CND but made 
a passionate speech at last year's party 
conference backing Neil Kinnock’s switch 
to a multilateral policy of negotiated and 
verifiable disarmament But why, then, did 
she tell The Independent last week: “I am 
still a unilateralist”? Her spokesman tells 
me it was “a figure of speech used in the 
context of recent unilateralist remarks made 
by Gorbachov, George Bush and even 
Douglas Hurd”. The Tories will be working 
hard to suggest otherwise. 


• With David Owen in China this week 

malting cooing noises to the regime which 
brought ns Tiananmen Square, rumours 
pas 1st at Westminster that the one job 
which would persuade him to give up active 
politics is the governorship of Hong Kong. 
Could there be any connection? 


I don’t wish to alarm my Westminster 
colleagues, but they should keep their 
eyes open for signs of infestation by 
those two highly damaging and unpleasant 
creatures, Ptimts Tectus and Siegobium 
Paniceum. Before anyone rings the doctor, I 
hasten to add that the Australian spider 
beetle and the bread beetle which hide under 
these exotic names attack only books. 
Conservative MP Michael Grylls this week 
asked Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leader of the 
House, to investigate what devastation the 
creatures may have wreaked on the Com¬ 
mons library. There are no signs yet, be 
replied, but staff are on the alert 


BARRY FANTONI 



THEtfSBrTTMES 


FRANK 

BRUNO 

WEDS 


“I suppose ‘I win, know what f mean, 
Harry’ u lawfully binding?” 


T be Nicaraguan revolution will enter a 
new phase of struggle tonight at 
Wandsworth Town HalL At issue will 
be a specially reserved parking space outside 
his Putney home for Francisco d'Escoto, 
Nicaraguan ambassador to London. At a 
committee meeting last month Tory council 
leaders argued against the allocation of a 
fire parking space for his official Volvo but 
lost the vote when two of their own side, 
feeling that even Marxists were entitled to a 
privilege extended to every other ambas¬ 
sador in London, joined forces with Labour 
councillors to approve. As the Tories have 
an overall majority of one, they could be set 
for a rare defeat when the matter goes to the 
full council meeting. 


A fter Commons secretaries were polled 
recently on the best dressed MP 
(winner Julian Critchley), they are 
now being invited to vote on Britain's 
healthiest politician. The stunt is sponsored 
by the California Prune Board which has 
designated for later this month a “National 
Prune Week”. Paddy Ashdown, a former 
Royal Marine, is believed to fancy his 
chances; no money is going on the paunchy, 
cigarette-smoking Health Secretary, 
Kenneth Clarke. 


D uring Douglas Hurd’s 
four years as Home Sec¬ 
retary a determined ef¬ 
fort was matte to change the 
direction of a penal system 
which bad become over-depen¬ 
dent on prison sentences. As the 
prison population climbed up 
and up, steadily outrunning the 
new {daces provided by the 
largest prison building pro¬ 
gramme this century, spuling 
over into the use ofpolice cells to 
hold remand prisoners, the need 
for a new initiative became 
increasingly urgent 
The answer was not hard to 
find, since the pressure on the 
prisons, the high cost, and the 
squalor resulting from over¬ 
crowding would all be dimin¬ 
ished by sending fewer people to 
jaiL The real problem lay in 
surmounting two formidable 
blocks: the feet that convicted 
offenders are sentenced by an 
independent judiciary not sub¬ 
ject to ministerial direction; and 
that public opinion, as reflected 
in Parliament, the Conservative 
Party and the Press, would be 
suspicious of anything smacking 
of going soft on crime. 

Yesterday's White Paper, the 
fruit of two years’ preparation, 
contains at its heart the idea of 
punishment in the community, a 
policy developed after much 
consultation based on the propo- 


G one are the days when Tory can¬ 
didatures were served on a plate to 
the great and the good. I learn that 
before his selection as Tory candidate in the 
Mid-Staffordshire by-election, Christopher 
Prior had to beat off a large number of 
apparently more qualified “retreads” with 
previous Commons experience in an 
exhausting procedure that should make the 
by-election campaign itself a piece of cake. 
Of the original 240 applicants, the list was 
whittled down to 20, who were interviewed 
individually by the selection committee. 
From that number, four went forward for a 
further interview with the local executive. 
Although it is quite usual at this stage for the 
executive to put only one name before the 
final adoption meeting, recent unseemly 
and public rows over shortlists of one 
dearly ruled out the practice this time. So 
Prior bad to compete against Richard 
Getaway, the former MP for Nottingham 
North, in addressing a meeting of party 
members and answering questions for half 
an hour. Before disposing of Ottaway, Prior 
had also seen off former MPs Warren 
Hawks ley, Robert Harvey and Roy Galley, 
all of whom lost their seats in 1987 and must 
now continue their search elsewhere. 


Lord Windlesham assesses the puni shm ent White Paper 


More 


adion that for tlmse convicted of 
less serious offences, punish¬ 
ment can be served elsewhere 
than in prison. Some of the 
components involve restraints 
on liberty or freedom of move¬ 
ment; others are designed to 
provide rec omp ense to victims 
or reparation for the wrong done; 
but each is calculated to lead to a 
greater protection of the public 
by reducing the Ekdibood of 
further offending. 

This is where prison is at its 
least effective. Not only is it 
enormously e xp e nsiv e and de¬ 
grading to human dignity, but 
individual responsibility is 1 
eroded. Prisoner are not re¬ 
quired to face up to the con¬ 
sequences of their actions, nor to 
compensate the victims. It is 

be^eifo^t^the stafl^most 
prisons are breeding grounds for 
further criminality, . with a 
depressingly high proportion of 
inmates returning within a year 
at two of their release. 

The White Paper has moved 


away from the earlier suggestion 
ofa new supervision and restric¬ 
tion order in favour of trans¬ 
forming probation orders into 
sentences of the court (currently 
they are used “instead of 
sentencing”) with which means- 
related fine* or community- 
based penalties can be 
combined. In various forms 
these indwfe compensation to 
victims, supervised tasks of ser¬ 
vice to the community, res¬ 
idence at a hostel or other 
approved place, prescribed acti¬ 
vities at a day c en t re , or else¬ 
where, tracking an offender’s 
whereabouts by constant con¬ 
tact, and staying away from 
places such as football grounds 
orpobtic houses where previous 
offences have fo™ con nnf tted 
With an offender's consent, a 
probation order may indude a 
condition of tre a tment for sub¬ 
stance abuse. Assisted by social 
inquiry reports, the courts will 
choose packa g es tailored to the 
circumstances of each individual 
offender. More demanding 


supervision by the probation 
service will be required than at 
present. 

The Government has got 
round the awkward corner of 
electronic tagging with some 
skill- Curfew orders, confining 
people to their homes at certain 
times, depend on electronic 
monitoring for their enforce¬ 
ment. Although the current 
experiments may well make tbe 
practice of tagjpng irrelevant, 
ministers have circumvented the 
rooted opposition of probation 
officers by proposing that the 
courts should have power to 
make curfew orders either as a 
condition of bail or as a penalty 
following conviction. These 
would be sep arate from the other 
orders, although they could run 
concurrently, and so could be 
supervised by an fgeocy apart 
from the probation service. 

Taken as a whole, tbe White 
Paper is to be welcomed as 
maintaining the thrust of 
punishm ent in the community, 
potentially a historic turning 


Power-sharing—a 


calculated gamble 


Moscow 

H ow many more head¬ 
lines will be written 
and read about Gor¬ 
bachov’s calls for the 
total overhaul of the Soviet 
Union? First it was the economy, 
then the political structure. This 
week the Communist Party has 
been added to tbe list of the 
institutions for which peres¬ 
troika has become a life-or-death 
imperative. 

Gorbachov’s proposals to re¬ 
assert the authority of the Soviet 
Communist Party, with their 
apparent recognition that the 
party will eventually have to 
compete for power alongside 
other parties, have been widely 
assessed as a desperate gamble to 
keep the party within reach of 
power. Boris Yeltsin, one of the 
leaders of radical opinion in the 
party, has described this new 
platform as the party’s last 
chance. Looking at the fete of 
communist parties throughout 
Eastern Europe, it is hard to see 
how Gorbachov can succeed 
where so many have ffrifed, 
Looking at the fete of reform in 
other areas of Soviet life can only 
reinforce that view. 

Perestroika is about to enta¬ 
ils sixth year, and the material 
and political state of the Soviet 
capital testifies to the minimal 
progress made in every area. 
Even the proceedings of the 
Congress of People’s Deputies, 
of whom two-thirds are directly 
elected, had lost their excitement 
by the second session in Decem¬ 
ber. There can be little hope that 
the Communist Party will prove 
any more amenable to revitaliz¬ 
ing itself. 

Whether it can hang on to 
power, however, and if so for 
how long, is a slightly different 
question, and one which com¬ 
munist reformers and tra¬ 
ditionalists alike hope can be 
answered in the affir mative. 

One of their arguments, which 
is particularly attractive to tbe 
traditionalists but is advanced 
also by others, is the special place 
the Communist Party still occu¬ 
pies in Soviet life by virtue of its 
historical role. The Soviet Com¬ 
munist Party, unlike those in 
Eastern Europe, is not identified 
with foreign domination, nor — 
until recently — with a decline in 
living standards. 

It is held responsible for 
turning imperial Russia into a 
pioneering revolutionary state; 
to many Russians, it enabled a 
hitherto backward country to 
promote itself to to the advance 
guard of history, however much 
ground it has subsequently lost. 
The abandonment of Com¬ 
munist Party rule seems tanta¬ 
mount to dedaring the revo¬ 
lution and all that has happened 
in the past 70 years no more than 
a mistake. 

A second argument, favoured 
by reformists, is that the party 
has recognized the need for 
change in time and can avoid the 
error of naif-measures by accept¬ 
ing the inevitability of a multi¬ 
party svstem at the outset. 

They believe that, given the 
special place of the Communist 
Party in Soviet history, it can 
only be strengthened by com- 



Despite Gorbachov’s continuing 
popularity, Mary Dejevsky sees 
little chance of the communists 
surviving in a multi-party system 


petition; it will retain its pre¬ 
eminence so long as it turns itself 
into a political patty on some ill- 
defined Western, perhaps 
vaguely social democratic, 
model. This is what the newly 
established party faction, the 
Democratic Platform, is aiming 
to do, and Gorbachov seems to 
have adopted several of its ideas. 

The third argument, advanced 
by both sides, is that opposition 
groups are not ready to compete 
with the Communist Party, so 
that for the foreseeable future 
there will be no realistic alter¬ 
native. While this may not hold 
for some of the Soviet republics 
— where nationalist organi¬ 
zations have presented an attrac¬ 
tive alternative — it is probably 
tree in the Russian federation 
and some other areas. 

The unreadiness of the oppo¬ 
sition, however, did not prevent 
the overthrow of the Communist 
Party in Romania; nor did it 
retard tbe decline of communist 
power anywhere else in Eastern 
Europe. It is possible to argue, on 
tbe contrary, that the more 
mature the opposition forces, the 
more inclined they are to com¬ 
promise and so bdp to keep the 
communists at least partially in 
power. 

Although Soviet communists 
are justified in drawing distinc¬ 
tions between their awn position 
and that of communism in 
Eastern Europe, there are two 
factors which make it none the 


less likely that they will share 
their fete, sooner rather than 
later. One is the level of popular 
resentment against the country's 
current rulers. Many Soviet 
communists — and participants 
at the Central Committee ple¬ 
num were no exception — try to 
distinguish between the upright 
leaders who have only the well¬ 
being of the people at heart and 
the selfish apparatus dominated 
by corrupt careerists who ob¬ 
struct them. 


N umerous recent exam¬ 
ples, from the plac¬ 
ards brandished at 
Sunday's demonstra¬ 
tion in Moscow to the en bloc 
removal of regional party 
committees in Volgograd and 
several other major population 
centres, demonstrate, however, 
that the Soviet public makes 
little attempt to distinguish be¬ 
tween tbe apparatus and the 
leaders. It secs them all as 
privileged fet cats who have 
lapped up all the cream and left 
only the dregs for the ordinary 
people. The nationwide eco¬ 
nomic difficulties which have 
led to the rationing of basic 
foodstuffs in some areas only 
exacerbate the widespread feel¬ 
ing of “them and us”. 

The only party figures to be 
excepted from the general oppro¬ 
brium are Boris Yeltsin, whose 
political programme includes a 
denunciation of party privileges, 
and, occasionally, Gorbachov, 


who is commonly regarded as 
having a difficult job and need¬ 
ing sympathy. 

The second reason why the 
Soviet Communist Party’s 
power is probably in irreversible 
decline is the impact of events in 
Eastern Europe; this can hardly 
be exaggerated. The Soviet me¬ 
dia took the decision, which was 
not reversed by tbe authorities, 
to call the Romanian uprising a 
revolution and the late President 
Ceausescu a dictator. 

Revolution is an emotive 
word in the Soviet Union; it 
bestows immediate approval on 
the outcome of events and on the 
perpetrators. The difficulty for 
the Soviet leadership is that 
people remember, and their 
memory docs not have to reach 
very far back to see pictures of 
Gorbachov and other Soviet 
leaders consorting with Roma¬ 
nia's erstwhile "dictator”. 

Romania offered a particular 
example of how a dictatorial 
communist leadership can be 
overthrown, but it is less the 
particular example that has 
made such an impression in the 
Soviet Union as the general 
lesson drawn from Eastern 
Europe. This has taught that one 
way or another, by mass 
demonstration, by stealth or by 
violence, a self-appointed com¬ 
munist leadership can be re¬ 
moved. 

Even last year there was a 
fatalism among many Soviet 
people who accepted the party as 
a necessary, because immovable, 
evil. There were also vestiges of 
fear - fear of retribution if 
opposition failed and fear of the 
unknown if it were to succeed. 

The people of the Soviet 
Union may have been painfully 
slow to embrace perestroika, but 
their fatalism and their fear are 
vanishing fast. 


point in penal policy, taking u 
forward in a way 
of attracting support from 
sentaHxraand the 
The sensible *£***& "I 

forms recommended by Lora 
Carlisle’s committee on ine 
working of parole in England 
and Wales (Scotland bad its own 
review) are generally aa*pteff 
although there is some tmk«nnj5 
with tbe threshold beyond winch 
a selective parole system would 

operate. There is also a^n^ 

cant reservation whereby me 

Home Secretory would reta in the 

final say on the release on hcence 
of all prisoners sentenced to 
wen veais or more. For 


The iron hand in the velvet 
glove shows most ctearty in the 
unexpected prop osal allowing 
the crown courts to give cus¬ 
todial sentences longer than 
would be justified by die dream, 
stances of the offence to penis- 
tent violent and sexual offinden 
if this is considered necessary to 

protect the public. 

Although CTidently intended 
as a makeweight for the exten¬ 
sion of statutory restraints on the 
use of custody and the reduction 
of maximum sentences fas theft 
and non-domestic btuglary, the 
idea of “topping up" sentences is 
Ekdy to prove c on trov ers ial If 
die penalties tee re¬ 

garded as being too tow. Par. 
foment should be invited to 
increase them. Where aggravafc- 


of this part of the White P aper 
■j ffnn keen to categorize the 
Carlisle recommendations as 
consistent with the tougher, 
rather than the constructi ve, of 

the two approaches whk± signify 

the Government’s twin-track 
policy on crime. More neutral 
wording would have been closer 
to the spirit of a notable report 


incidents, the courts wilt ten. 
te pee hear die nucamnih, sub¬ 
ject to appeal by either side. 
Adding a surch arge, in order to 
keep persistent offenders in cate 
tody for longer than their crime 
warrants, harks back to the days 

of preventive detention, and fe 
out of step with the “just 
deserts" (or retributive) theme 
declared at the start of the White 

Paper. ‘i 

Lord Windlesham, Principal qf 
Brasenose College, Oxford, is a 
former chairman of the Parole 
Board. -- 


Peter Stothard 


Alien finger 
on the pulse 


Washington 

R ichard Wirthlin is a de¬ 
vout Mormon, a devoted 
servant of ex-President 
Reagan and a friend of Kenneth 
Baker, the Conservative party 
chairman. His Wirthlin Group, 
whose client list indudes Quaker 
Oats and General Motors, as 
well as Reagan and tbe Repub¬ 
lican Party, is one of America’s 
top companies in the business of 
reading the public mind. 

The group is now getting to 
know a new diene Mrs That¬ 
cher. Just before Christmas, in a 
mass of otherwise routine per¬ 
sonal announcements. Baker ap- 


election have vowed that “Black 
Thursday”, the day when the 
Tory campaign almost collapsed 
through internal dissent between 
Lord Young and Norman 
Tebbit, should never be re¬ 
peated. Baker has recently 
assembled a team of top media 
rivals, including Tim Bell, Sir 
Gordon Reece, John Bantr^ 
Robin Wight and Michael Pe¬ 
ters, who are intended to meet 
him regularly for the next two 
years to review research and [ten 
party presentation. 

Saatchi & Saatchi, whose cor¬ 
porate ego suffered perhaps the 
biggest bruising In the 19S8 


pointed Dr Wirthlin as a part- .campaign, have left the political 
lime adviser to the Conservative stage. Wirthlin should be Step- 



Party. His “vast experience in 
the field of polling and opinion 
research” could be invaluable, 
ran the press release. 

Wirthlin is, indeed, a remark¬ 
able catch. For two decades he 
spent millions of bard-raised 
Republican dollars on providing 
Reagan with the most sophis¬ 
ticated political listening post in 
the world. Every month bis 
in Utah telephoned thousands of 
Americans to ask their views of 
White House policy. Each sur¬ 
vey generated hundreds of 
computerized charts and tables. 

The vast scale of the operation 
was a closely guarded secret. 
Some of the results, particularly 
details of extensive work on Mrs 
Reagan, were shown only to the 
President himself. Other studies 
were kept to a dose circle and 
used to undermine outsiders. 

Tbe moderate James Baker, 
then Secretary of the Treasury, 
made great use of the work in his 
struggle with the hardline 
Alexander Haig, Reagan's Sec¬ 
retary of State. Tbe studies on 
the Soviet threat and tax cuts 
were of immense use to Reagan 
in appealing to the people over 
the heads of Congress. 

In addition to traditional poll¬ 
ing, Wirthlin explored the public 
psyche by wiring up selected 
audiences for speeches and pol¬ 
itical broadcasts; tbe performing 
politician then watched his 
efforts on a video recorder, his 
image superimposed by a graph 
showing the response to his 
"power phrases” Patriotism; up. 
Tax reform: down. And so on. 

Wirthlin is about to bring his 
well-tried weaponry to Britain. 
He lists the skills ofhis company 
in his current brochure as 
"launching new products or 
repositioning existing ones", 
"resolving public affairs crises” 
and “winning elective office". 
Kenneth Baker's job could 
hardly be better defined. 

The inner circles of British 
Conservative politics are, how¬ 
ever. not easy for the outsider to 
penetrate, its paths no less snake- 
infested than those of the White 
House. "When Richard Wirthlin 
speaks, 1 listen," Reagan once 
said. The two men enjoyed milk- 
and-biscuit sessions overlooking 
the Pacific ocean. How he will 
get on over scotch and water in 
Downing Street is the subject of 
jealous speculation. 

Senior ministers who survived 
the back-subbing quarrels be¬ 
tween rival advertising agents 
and pollsters before the last 


ping on it to a harmonious, 
refrain of welcome. At the first 
meeting of the new group, 
however, there was no mention 
of what he was going todd 
There is dearly a certain antipa¬ 
thy to the arrival of a Reaganiie 
ideologue, particularly one 
whose career has been built oil 
an exclusive partnership with his 
political master. 

As for wiring up audiences for 
party political broadcasts, Brit¬ 
ish critics say the graph on the 
screen may tell you what the 
voters are feeling, but not how 
they are going to vote. The 
standard London view is that 
much of the Republican polling 
money might as wed have been 
poured down die drain. . 


B ut secret information, 
even ifit is faulty informa¬ 
tion, provides power. Don 
Regan, President Reagan’s disas¬ 
trous second-term chief of staff 
loved the exdusivity of the 
Wirthlin reports. Tebbit Joved 
those from the Saatchis. Before 
“Black Thursday”, Mrs. 
Thatcher received reports on all 
her ministers from research that 
was supposed to be kept from 
Tebbit. • ■->. 

Today, a ministerial group, 
headed by Douglas Hurd and 
including Chris Patten and 
David Medor is reviewing re¬ 
search on the alarming drift of 
women away from tbe Toft 
party. Who else is on tip 
receiving list for this expensve 
material — and who is off it? Not 
even the recipients always ktum 
Wirthlin will find no difficulty 
in adapting to the British, pol¬ 
itical landscape when he makes 
his next visit in a few weeks’ 
time. But he may not easily find 
himself a place in it. 

His friends say that since 
losing his place in the White 
House he has been more ready to 
take risks. He backed a loser 
when he advised the chaotic 
1988 presidential campaign « 
Senator Bob Dole. He hasted 
the tide of unchallenged leads; 
of his profession to Robed 
Teeter, President Bush’s man. 

He will certainly be conscious 
of the need to learn his-Labottf 
opponents’ weaknesses; “almo# 
always a dollar or a vote £ 
gained at the competitor's dr 
pen sc." he writes in his latest- 
brochure. But influence hastobe 
won at the expense of compel 
itors on one's own side —and the 
rivals for Mrs Thatcher’s car are 
well dug in. 


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Oh do! A tiny crack has appeared 
in my schedule, so Pm clamber¬ 
ing through it and going away. 
This is a mistake. Not a tiny crack 
of a mistake, but a huge canyon of 
a mistake. Every single meeting I 
might have needed over the 
coming four years has been stuck 
in next week's diary as revenge. 

I am only going for six days. 
Nevertheless, my dentist is being 
squeezed in, and the accountants 
want to present accounts. I must 
travel by train the length and 
breadth of Britain for a day on 
behalf of Comic Relief. Come on! 
Something must be done about 
tbe homeless before it's too late 
and they all find homes. 

Stick it in tire diary. Ob, and 
Time Out wants a new photo¬ 
graph of me. The last one must 
have fallen off their danboard. 
Arena is making an in-depth 
documentary on Frankie Howerd 
and wants to discuss the nature of 


Stressful? Just don’t wind me up 


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Ik Sn PP°n efik SciJV 


comedic development in the im¬ 
mediate post-war period with 
specific reference to the Goons 
and the satire boom. (Well, we 
can chuck that one out.) I have to 
arrange something coy for Val¬ 
entine's day, because 1 always (to 
and the more feeble the habit the 
less easy it is to break. 

Ron Devillier is presenting at 
12 o'clock sharp and I simply 
must hear him, mustn’t 1? We 
must discuss tbe television series, 
only eight months away, which is 
bearing down upon us with the 
velocity ofa river of lard. Tm in a 
play every night except Sunday, 
twice on Wednesday's and Sat¬ 
urdays. And why do I always get 
the wet tray in the ca n teen? 


OK, HI stay at home. With so 
much to amuse me here, what can 
the Caribbean offer by compari¬ 
son? It’s a ghastly prospect any¬ 
way: lying on a txach and trying 
hard to do nothing; feverishly 
desperate to wring some instant 
fun out of six days in the tropics. 
And think of tbe cost of going 
primitive! To lie in rags beneath a 
banyan tree eating fruit and nuts 
and doing bugger ail needs serious 
dosh. Put in some more meetings 
and a couple of voice overs, 
quick, so we can pay for it alL 
It must be stress. 1 lay in my 
study for a week reading The 
Times’ survey on healthy living 
and worrying myself silly. Appar¬ 
ently it’s all down to fltli tyfo 


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Griff 

Rhys Jones 


Either you let these things get to 
you, drive you up the wail, 
frustrate and depress you and 
stick you in an early grave, or you 
don’L Ii*s entirely up to you. 
Stress-free persons chortle 


inanely when their shower sud¬ 
denly drops to a freezing trickle 
and leaves them up to the neck in 
soap. When they gci stuck in a 
traffic jam six miles from the 
theatre and five minutes before 
opening they smile indulgently 
and stick James Taylor on the 
stereo. Should little boys ring 
their Entryphone every Saturday 
afternoon and yell obscenities, 
the laid-back and healthy shakes 
his head and grins before joyfully 
returning to squeeze out the 
mattress the two-year-old has just 
had an upset into. They love 
meetings. Or maybe not. 

Mind you, the Times ques¬ 
tionnaire set the brain humming. 
“Do you fiddle with your hair. 


pick your nails or twitch?" Of 
course f fiddle with my hair, what 
business is it of yours? I have a 
good reason for doing so. 
When I stopped going 10 the 
barber some years ago, for rea¬ 
sons which escape me, I started 
cutting my own hair and found it 
convenient to twirl U p long bits 
on the lop of mv head for 
trimming at a later date. This is 
not a sign of incipient madness 
but of paipmonious desperation. 
r A®" n ? ,nJ y d ? not bite my 
fingernails. Having had an im- 
mature yen to be a guitar giant, I 
slopped chewing the hoof when I 
}?• * n kc* I now have 
splendid fingernails, their length 
and curliness much commented 


on by people in trains. So what? - 
And while I'm about it, let me 
assure you that there is nothing • 
queer about talking .to onesdL^ 
“Muttering", my wife calls it 4 
Muttering is a useful wtay of airing, 
grievances and ga jp m g perspec¬ 
tive, and I don’t care if it doe* 
frighten the lady in the paper 3 
shop. Along with pacing about. - 
becoming excessively morose and , 

jumping up and down in rage 09 3 
the pavement, it is quite normal'* 
and, anyway, amuses any child- -, 
ren who happen to be around. • 

So at least it’s not stress. *T3o - 
you suffer from the ddnsion that: 
people are Ffofoc up on jttff 1 ..' 
That is one thing 1 am hot. ■ _ 
deluded about. People dojpmtif-] 
on me, and they know they do, .1 
When I am folly rested after tny 
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 


tThe Government's White Paoer cm rvw 

S5S ^ “ the way ofionSreare 

£**125 S,^^ d -¥ d Wale& ft embodies 
^me beflef that ^punishment can effectively 
s jjehounce cri minal behaviour and exact 
^ It *” From this flows the concept 
of just deserte^anew legislative frameworkfor 
J^nanB. based on the sertouSSTtf ite 

has been very 

< &®ncn\. The While Paper will modify a 
philosophy which has its roots in the 19th 
century, or even earlier, and which has 
.emphasized the importance of apportioning 
peaahses not actgn&ag to the offence bm 
becomingtothe offender. This provided fertile 
foil tor the basic reforming aims of the prison 
service and client-oriented approach of 
probation officers. 

- The White Paper rightly proposes new 
powers for the Crown Court to impose longer 
sentences for violent and sexual offences. But 
the Government intends that non-violent 
offenders should be punished in the co Dunn¬ 
's! nity by tough and demanding non-custodial 
sentences. The curfew would be one of them, 
but it would not need to stop them from 
working. ^ If electronic monitoring worked 
property it would “overcome most difficulties 
about enforcing curfew orders.** 

The tough treatment extends to feckless 
parents who will be brought to heel by courts in 
de aling with young people. Courts will have to 
take account of parents* means in requiring 
them to pay fines for their children; and courts 
will have to consider binding parents over to 
require them to take proper care and control of 
their children. It is, of course, right to hope that 
parents will bring up their children well and 
trice responsibility for them, but there are 
doubts‘whether a requirement penalizing those 
5 vho do not will have the success it deserves. 

A more clear-cut application of the principle 
of just deserts is in proposals to match fines to 
means. If the Government does decide to 
tk introduce such a system, it would avoid the 
injustice of poor offenders being hit harder 
than rich for similar offences. 


DR KOHL’S BOMBSHELL 


.The Foreign Secretary endorsed German 
"unification in Bonn yesterday, in a speech 
-which emphasized the need for “reasonable 
.periods of transition**. The contrast between 
Mr Hurd’s cautious tone and the heady pace of 
^German domestic politics was underlined only 
<a few hours later when the West German 
Chancellor annonneed that his Government is 
io open “immediate nego tiations ** with East 
Germany on a currency union coupled with 
‘economic reforms. 

T. The Chancellor, supported by both his 
jinance and economic ministers, now sees the 
.introduction of the Deutschmark as a “parallel 

'currency” in East Germany as the quickest way 
ito help the East German economy and to stem 
the exodus to the West of “resettters”. Today, 
the West German Cabinet will meet to draw up 
f a schedule for unification in every sphere 
except defence. 

The decision illustrates the degree to which 
political pressures in both Germaines are 
forcing aside councils of prudence at home and 
-abroad. The Chancellor has put the Govern¬ 
ment on collision course with Dr Karl Otto 
Tobl, the president of the Bundesbank, West 
Germany’s independent central bank. 

- Dr Pdfal believes it to be “an illusion** that 
any of East Germany’s problems would be 
.solved either by fullblown monetary union or 
by the “parallel currency** formula. Yesterday 
•morning he and his East German counterpart 
emerged from a meeting in East Berlin agreeing 
'that the idea was ‘‘fantastic”: a dismissal not to 
.be taken Lightly, since the Bundesbank would 
have to administer the scheme. In the view of 
•both central bankers, the priorities for East 
Germany are tax, banking and far-re achin g 
economic reforms. 

The currency issue is profoundly emotive. 
The Western allies’ introduction of a common 
currency countered by the Soviet Unions 


decision to issue a separate currency, was the 
catalyst for the division of Germany. It is now 
seen by many Germans as an obstacle to unity. 
Chancellor Kohl’s offer of talks will be popular 
with his electorate. It will also be welcomed by 
some businessmen: Herr Tyil Necker, the 
president of the Federation of West German 
: Industry, put forward his own four-point plan 
last month for East-West monetary union by 
the end of 1992. 

In the shut term, monetary union would 
ease supply problems in East Germany and 
force its companies to compete. But the 
corollary would be that many enterprises 
would be forced to dose and their workers* 
savings would be almost wiped out by true 
convertibility. Many of the opposition groups 
in East Germany are even less convinced than 
Herr Modrow’s Government of the virtues of 
the market economy. It is probable that even 
after a new government is formed after the 
Much elections, monetary union at the pace 
now envisaged in Bonn would be unmatched 
by economic reforms. 

The central argument — whether economic 
stability is a precondition, or a consequence, of 
economic convergence — echoes those over 
European Monetary Union. The Bundesbank 
already had some reservations about the 
implications of EMU for toe stability of the 
Deu tschmar k. It has now been issued toe 
challeng e of exporting sound monetary policies 
east, which for all its independent status wiD be 
hard to resist 

It seems improbable that a West German 
Government could now agree to EMU without 
including East Germany. Chancellor Kohl may 
not yet have moved toe future frontier of the 
Community eastward; but his decision yes¬ 
terday shortened toe definition of what period 
of transition might be “reasonable**. 


the inspector calls 


Mr Jack Straw, Labour’s education ^spokes¬ 
man, thinks the education system is in serious 
"crisis”. Mr John MacGregor, toe man he would 
fcke to replace on toe bed of nails « toe 
^Department of Education and Soenoe, be¬ 
lieves that progress is being matte, and that 

much of it aSSESwuMc to toe ^overamenfs 

educational reforms. Both men "^respond¬ 
ing to the latest annual report nom Her 
Majesty’s Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, 
Mr are Bolton. Selectively read, it could be 
feed to support either contention. __ 

- The overall picture * e f 

tome is of a service in which mortofwhat« 
done “is of reaso nable quality or better^, but 

Variation in standards of work is a 
_ a iwmm and colleges, between 70 


■be satisfactory or better, inat, « 

.‘another way ofsayingthat 
I what HMI saw in schools was T»or or av 

ZZm problems 

‘tow and under-achievement, of poor teaching 
;and of inadequate provision. - Kril t 

iJAftrs.sssftgrS 

gsa£ 

;borough is cited as ^ overS eas 

[probationers well as covering 

ksomeoftoemunqitelffie^^aswe 

’.140 permanent and 30' identified 

Two^ofpamcuIaT<W&^^ 

providing P™^7 co ^ r C ^:hDoIogy, and 
confidence and skill to co . 0 f mod- 
finding sufficient secondary teachers o 

fern languages. ..niikelv that toe 

’ Mr Bolton behe ves ^ { - acher supply will 

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urgently review their teacher-advisory services 
to determine whether the large increase in their 
numbers can be justified at a time of difficulty 
like the present 

The report also has sensible things to say 
about attracting and keeping sufficient num¬ 
bers of suitably qualified and experienced 
teachers, and urges that the service should not 
be restricted to “a few somewhat inflexible 
routes into teaching”. The undergraduate and 
postgraduate routes already exist. The licensed 
teacher route is as yet untried, and this year 
will see toe introduction of the articled teacher 
scheme. Mr Bolton points out that there may 
turn out to be one crucial difference between 
the past and the present There are now 
national, statutory requirements about the 
curriculum fra- all pupils during their com¬ 
pulsory schooling — “perhaps that will 
concentrate minds on reducing teacher short¬ 
ages and minimizing recruitment difficulties”. 

The report, which occasioned heated ex¬ 
changes yesterday between Mr Kinnock and 
the Prime Minister, coincides with a poll 
finding that more than nine out of 10 teachers 
approve of the recent educational reforms. 
That is good news for toe Government. Much 
less cheering is toe finding that one in three 
teachers would leave the profession immed¬ 
iately if they could. 

There is dearly a good deal of dissatisfaction 
— with toe quality of books and equipment, 
with the condition of school buildings, with toe 
size of classes. There is also still a widespread 
feeling in toe profession that their salaries are 
inadequate. The underlying issue, however, is 
toe matter of how the profession is regarded. 
Education is a matter of national concern. By 
moving closer to toe aspirations of teachers in 
toe matter of pay and status, the Government 
will underwrite the success of its reform 
programme. 


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 


The belief that more offenders can be treated 
in the community by a more imaginative use of 
fines and by other penalties providing some 
restriction of liberty reflects a wish, held by all 
recent governments, to reduce toe prison 
population. Overcrowding, with an ever 
present possibility of disturbance, has long 
been an ominous backdrop to policy making. 

The weakness of changes to the parole 
system proposed in toe white Paper is that 
with prisoners serving at least half of their 
sentence, they would be likely to increase toe 
prison population. 

The aim of the parole proposals is toe 
a dmir able one of ensuring that toe time spent 
in custody should be closer to toe sentence 
ordered by toe courts, so restoring greater 
credibility to them. Given toe range of 
punishments in the community to be mad e 
available, toe Government must hope courts 
will use them with toe effect of further reducing 
toe prison population, which has already fallen 
by 2,542 in toe last year to 46,557. 

The White Paper wisely sees do need for a 
much canvassed Sentencing Council to de¬ 
velop sentencing policies or guidance. Though 
innocuous sounding, any influence that might 
threaten the independence of toe judiciary, a 
safeguard of baric freedoms, is potentially 
dangerous. 

The Government’s package has more of an 
Old Testament flavour than a New. Yet it is 
not a liking for retribution nor the p enalizing of 
parents which has reduced dramatically toe 
number of juveniles aged under 17 given 
custodial sentences -a fall of more than 50 per 
cent since 1981. That has more to do with well- 
devised alternative treatment in toe commu¬ 
nity and tighter statutory restrictions 
governing toe use of custody. 

The Government’s proposals provide a new 
sense of purpose to the penal system. But if the 
pendulum of penological fashion is not to 
swing too fast and too far, it would also be wise 
not to neglect too much toe emphasis on toe 
offender which has provided a sense of 
reforming moral purpose in toe last 100 or 
more years. 


Education values 
and targets 

From Professor A. C. Renfrew. 
FBA. and others 

Sir, A recent letter to you (January 
31) has already drawn attention to 
the lower value of maintenance 
awards in the humanities com¬ 
pared with those in other fields. 

The President of the British 
Academy (which administers the 
postgraduate student scheme on 
behalf of the Department- of 
Education and Science) wrote in 
October last to the secretary of 
state for education to draw his 
attention to the severe reduction 
in postgraduate students for the 
current academic year, from die 
base figure of 870 in previous 
years to 760 new awards. 

Ala time when the Government 
speaks of increasing student num¬ 
bers and urges more efficient use 
of resources, it is extremely waste¬ 
ful not to use the facilities which 
currently exist in the universities 
in the humanities. Where are the 
educational values which the sec¬ 
retary of state, in other contexts, 
has been advocating? 

Unplanned, unann o un ced cuts 
of this kind severely damage 
important research schools of 
international repute, and the Gov¬ 
ernment’s own reputation for 
caring for higher education. Will 
the secretary of state not re¬ 
consider the whole matter and 
make a public announcement? 
Yours sincerely, 

COUN RENFREW 
(Department of Archaeology, 
Cambridge University), 

DEREK BREWER (Faculty of 
English, Cambridge University, 
BARRY CUNLIFFE (Institute of 
Archaeology, Oxford University), 
NORMAN STONE (Faculty of 
Modem History, Oxford L/mvosityX 
Downing Street, 

Cambridge. 

February 2. 

From Dr Peter V. Jones 
Sir, It is gratifying to learn (report, 
January 26) that the secretary of 
state for education has finally 
agreed that the National Curricu¬ 
lum as presently constituted does 
pose a threat to classics (and all 
other minority subjects) and that 
he is willing to endorse the 
principle of flexibility within the 
National Curriculum structure. 
Minute as the room for manoeuvre 
still is, principles are important 
We must now work to establish 
a second principle; that attain¬ 
ment in a subject does not depend 
upon a particular curriculum 
structure. If die secretary of state 
can be persuaded to concentrate 
on what children should attain in 
any subject, not when and how 
they should attain it, he stands a 
chance of developing a system 
which can both deliver high 
standards and remain true to Tory 
principles of freedom and choice. 

It is a big fence for him to jump* 
perhaps Mrs Thatcher, with her 
robust common sense, can help 
him over it 
Yours ett, 

PETER V. JONES, 

University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 
Department of Classics, 

Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU. 
January 26. 

Child witnesses 

From Professor G. M. Davies 
Sr, Alex Sutherland paints an 
over-pessimistic picture of the 
competence of child witnesses 
(Wednesday Page, January 31). 
After the initial difficulties she 
describes, the video-link is now 
being used in 14 centres through¬ 
out F.ngland and Wales and is to 
be extended to another seven to 
provide a comprehensive geo¬ 
graphical coverage. An analysis of 
the first 106 cases to come before 
the courts showed that the accused 
chose to plead guilty prior to the 
start of trial on 42 per cent of 
occasions, graphic evidence of the 
truth of the young witnesses’ 
allegations. 

Video-links, however, can do 
little for those below seven years 
whose evidence is currently ex- 

Candid candies 

From Mr N. J. Fagan 
Sir, I was recently given an 8oz 
box of delicious chocolates from 
Chicago, Illinois, called “Fannie 
May Kitchen Fresh Candies”. On 
the bottom of the relatively small 
box appeared the following: 
Ingredients: Chocolate, Sugar, Com 
Syrup, Cream, Batter, Coconut 
(Contains Sodium Meta bisulfite, 
Retains Coconut Whiteness), Con¬ 
fectioners Coating (Contains Sugar, . 
Palm Kernel Oil, Non Fat Muk, 
Bunerfat, Hydrogenated Pahn Oil, 
Lecithin (an Emulsifier), Certified 
Color, Vanillin and Other Artificial 
Flavors), Invert Sugar, Brown Sugar, 
Almonds, English Walnuts, Sweet¬ 
ened Condensed Whole Milk, Par¬ 
tially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil 
(May Contain One or More of the 
Following: Soybean, Cottonseed, 
Palm), Black Walnuts, Dextrose, 

Museum charges 

From Dr Thomas Wright 
Sir, The comments made by John 
Letts (January 27) could lead to 
some m Hamrier e randing - Though 
the Science Museum may aspire to 
be an “attractive popular ex¬ 
hibition” it must not be forgotten 
that the museum’s collections are 
without parallel in its sphere. 

The works of Trevithick, Par¬ 
sons, the Stephensons. Cockerell, 
Whittle, Gresley, Fax Talbot, 
Babbage, Bessemer, Cockrofl and 
Walton, R. J. Mitchell, Crick and 
Watson stand beside the products 
of Rolls-Royce, Boulton & Watt, 
Henry Maudslay, Vickers and 
Marconi 

This vast body of material 
represents both an immense schol¬ 
arly resource and a monument to 
inventive genius. Our primary 


Preparing the Army of tomorrow 


From Major General J. M. 
Strawson 

Sir, That the regular part of the 
British Army will be reduced in 
size now seems certain. There are 
among others four thing s that 
those in charge should try to bring 
about. They are: 

1. The creation of a Territorial 
Army (if necessary using dis¬ 
banded regular regiments) so ex¬ 
cellent that everyone will want to 
belong to it and there will be 
waiting lists. With a large regular 
cadre, at least squadron/company 
strength, for each battalion-sized 
unit, first class equipment (from 
disbanded regular units), exciting 
training, particularly overseas, 
and a world-wide emergency role 
- it could become a Reserve to be 
reckoned with. 

2. The regular Army, whether at 
home or overseas, must acquire a 
flexibility of capability and role 
(this means equipment too) that 
will allow all regiments — whether 
armoured, artillery, engineer, in¬ 
fantry, transport etc. — to go 
anywhere and do anything in 
cooperation with the Royal Navy 
and Royal Air Force to fulfil roles 
of peacekeeping, UN duties, 
disaster aid, internal security. 

3. Training of the regular Army 
(and reserves) must be so exciting 
and demanding that it beats 
anything yet thought of by John 
Blashford-Snell or Tim Severin, 
and when possible must involve 
helping with problems of environ¬ 
ment and natural disaster. 

4. Those places overseas where we 
still have responsibilities — Hong 
Kong, Brunei, Cyprus. Gibraltar, 
Belize, the Falklands, etc. - must, 
to those countries' benefit as well 
as ours, be utilized to the utmost. 
And all Commonwealth countries 
must be offered training assistance 
in return for training and ex¬ 
change facilities. 

Last year you were good enough 
to publish a letter of mine deplor¬ 
ing the reduction of Gibraltar’s 
garrison — perhaps now, with a 
shortage qf places to go, this 
decision may be reversed. 

If these things are done, the 
British Array, both regular and 

Watchdog on health 

From Dr Paul Walker 
Sir, Professor Seager (January 23) 
in describing die role of the NHS 
Health Advisory Service in check¬ 
ing on health care for the elderly 
and the mentally ill, including 
drug misusers, points out that the 
service does not indude wi thin its 
remit certain other groups of 
disadvantaged patients, notably 
the younger physically disabled. 

It is my personal view, shared 
by colleagues in the field, that the 
younger physically disabled of all 
the so-called priority care groups 
have fared least well over the last 
20 years. They comprise persons 
with a range of conditions, includ¬ 
ing multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid 
arthritis, stroke, and victims of 
major trauma. 

They are in the main neglected 
within the National Health Ser¬ 
vice, neglected in their homes, and 
often neglected in residential and 
nursing home accommodation 

duded from the courtroom Only 
the admission of taped evidence 
will enable them to testily. The 
legitimate concern for the defen¬ 
dant can be accommodated by the 
proposal of the Pijjot committee 
for a second taped interview to be 
admitted, at which the defence 
could put searching questions to 
the child. 

Children, like adults, can tell 
untruths: However, such occa¬ 
sional failing s — nnlike those of 
adults — are taken as air excuse for 
exduding children from the ju¬ 
dicial system, rather than leaving 
the decision to ihe jury. This 
cannot be right. 

Yours sincerely, 

GRAHAM DAVIES, 

Leicester University. 

Department of Psychology, 
Leicester LEI 7RH. 

February 1. 

Peanuts, Cherries; Raisins, Citrus 
Fed, Natural and Artificial Flavor, 
Egg Whites, Pecans. Sah, Straw¬ 
berry, Maple Sugar, Raspberry, Leci¬ 
thin . (an Emulsifier), Molasses. 
Natural and Certified Colors Include 
FD A C Yellow No. 5, Vinegar, 
mono and Diglycerides, Baking 
Soda, Invertase, Sorbitol, TBHQ 
and Citric Add in Propylene Glycol 
and BHA and BHT in Com Oil 
Added to Retard Oxidation. Gelatin 
and Glycerin. Fruits May Contain 
Potassium Sorbate. Sodium Ben¬ 
zoate or Sorbic Add to Preserve 
Freshness. 

Is this a record for “fresh 
candies"? 

Yours faithfully, 

N. J. FAGAN, 

Little Orchard, 

Farm Lane, 

CrondalL 
Nr Famham, 

Surrey. 

role, like that of all great muse¬ 
ums, is to ensure the well-being of 
our collections and nurture the 
scholarship that leads to their 
understanding. But we also have a 
duty to explain, and in a language 
that our public can understand. 
Yours etCL, 

THOMAS WRIGHT (Assistant 
Director (Collections)), 

The Science Museum, 

Exhibition Road, SW7. 

January 30. 

From Mrs P M Grayhum 
Sir, May f enter belatedly the 
debate a bom admission charges 
for museums as a result of a long 
weekend m Pans recently. It is 
possible io buy a ticket for one, 

Letters to the Editor should cany 
a daytime telephone number. They 
may be sent to a fax lumber — 
(01)782 5046. 


reserve, and based as always on 
our priceless regimental system, 
will continue to be the finest in the 
world. 

Yours, 

JOHN STRAWSON, 

Hie Old Rectory, Boyton, 
Warminster, Wiltshire. 

February 5. 

From General Sir William 
Jackson 

Sir, May 1 add three points to 
Henry Stanhope's thoughtful 
piece, “What role now for the 
Army?” (January 30). 

First, may 1 suggest that we 
should remember that we have 
always made our way in the world 
by our astute and almost intuitive 
manipulation of balances of 
power. With the probable break¬ 
up of the present security frame¬ 
work we shall again need well 
balanced general-purpose forces 
that are sought by potential allies 
— and feared by opponents — not 
for their size but for the impact 
they can make upon future bal¬ 
ances of power. 

Secondly, and as far as the Army 
is concerned, it would pay us to 
look bade lor ideas to General 
Hans von Seeckt’s organisation of 
the German KXXOOO-stroog army 
of the 1920s, from which the 
Wehrmacht sprang so quickly and 
efficiently in the early 1930s. 

We cannot foretell when we wiD 
need a large army again, but it is 
worth retailing that Napoleon, 
Stalin, and Hitler came to power 
in the wake of popular disillusion 
with the fruits of revolution. We 
need a von Seeckt-style of army as 
the basis for future expansion. 

And thirdly, and above all, we 
must avoid tire precedent of our 
own dark days of the 1920s when 
the Treasury-inspired “10-year 
rule” - the assumption that there 
would be no major war for 10 
years - left us almost defenceless 
while von Seedct's 100,000 be¬ 
came the Wehrmacht. 

Yours faithfully, 

BILL JACKSON, 

West SioweiL 
Marlborough, Wiltshire. 

January 30. 

provided by the statutory, vol¬ 
untary, and private sectors. 

The creation of the Health 
Advisory Service in (he early 70s 
by Richard Crossman was a major 
landmark in improving the lot of 
several disadvantaged groups of 
patients, notably the eklerly and 
the mentally QL The mentally 
handicapped have their own 
- ad visory/ inspection service — the 
National Development Team. 

Surely it is about time that 
either the remit of the Health 
Advisory Service was extended to 
include the younger physically 
disabled, or, preferably, a new 
or gan i s ation was es tablishe d to act 
as a watchdog specifically for this 
disadvantaged section of the 
population. 

Yours sincerely, 

PAUL WALKER 
(Director of Public Health), 
Norwich Health Authority, 

St Andrew’s Hospital (North SideX 
Yarmouth Road, 

Norwich, Norfolk. 

Conditional truth 

From Dr John Doherty 
Sir, When I was the medical 
superintendent of a hospital in the 
tropics I tried to give enquiring 
journalists a fair description of the 
condition of a young man who had 
been lost in dense jungle during 
the rainy season (letter, February 
IX He had a chronic neurological 
disease; was suffering from expo¬ 
sure and had not eaten fix several 
days His skin was covered with 
bites, sores, and leeches 

I said that while his life was not 
in danger be was extremely un¬ 
comfortable. Newspapers, tele¬ 
vision, and radio duly reported 
him as being “comfortable”. 

Yours faithfully, 

JOHN DOHERTY, 

Via Cleante 13, Casal Palocco, 
Rome 00124, Italy. 

A taxing question 

From Mr John Bratby. RA 
Sir, Just before Christmas I went 
completely blind in one eye and 
bad an operation on both, costing 
£2,000, and its results are as yet 
uncertain. 1 cannot paint. 

The Greek philosophers would 
argue that an artist’s optic is an 
instrument of his profession, a 
tool of his trade. 

• I have claimed die cost of eye¬ 
ball repair against income tax, 
though I doubt if the taxman will 
agree with the philosophers of 
Athens. 

Yours sincerely, 

JOHN BRATBY, 

Hotel Lancaster, 7 roe de Berry, 
Champs Efysfies, 

75008 Paris, France. 

February 5. 

three, or five days for an approxi¬ 
mate charge of £5.50, £10, or £15, 
which admits to 62 museums and 
monuments in Paris and the He de 
France. 

Surely something similar for 
visitors to London would be an 
excellent source of revenue, and a 
scheme could be devised for 
sharing the proceeds amongst 
participating institutions. 

We bad excellent value from 
our three-day ticket, also, in¬ 
cidentally from a three-day first- 
class travel pass valid for all rail, 
bus. and metro journeys - even 
the Montmartre funicular! 

Yours sincerely, 

PATRICIA GRAYBURN 
(Arts Administrator), 

University of Surrey Arts 
Committee, 

Guildford, Surrey. 

January 25. 


Governors’ view 
of Harrow’s hill 

From the Clerk tothe Governors of 
Harrow School 

Sir, Save Britain’s Heritage is a 
concern with which Harrow 
School shares many common 
aims. Nevertheless, the eminent 
authors of yesterday's letter would 
appear not to know that: 

1. The school governors do not 
plan any development on the open 
slope beneath the parish church. 

2. The inspector appointed by the 
secretary of state for the environ¬ 
ment to bear the appeal found that 
the theatre would not significantly 
detract from the important views 
of the church. 

3. The need for a theatre amenity 
to enhance the school's educa¬ 
tional facilities has not been 
disputed and the inspector found 
that the proposed theatre “would 
be a worthy addition to (the 
school’s) stock of fine buildings." 

4. The new housing was generally 
acknowledged at the enquiry to be 
wefl designed and, in the inspec¬ 
tor’s view, the layout of the 
development was such as to allow 
the openness of the fields to 
penetrate the site and to preserve 
the character and function of the 
site as a transitional area between 
the open fields and the buildings 
in West Street. 

5. The scheme was supported by 
the professional officers of the 
local council and the appeal was 
allowed, not on the grounds of 
housing gain, but on the grounds 
that the development would pre¬ 
serve and enhance the character 
and appearance of the conserva¬ 
tion areas of which the site forms 
part. 

The governors are keenly aware 
of their responsibilities for stew¬ 
ardship. These responsibilities are 
not only to conserve the good but 
also to manage the changes im¬ 
posed on them by the requirement 
of their primary duty, the pro¬ 
vision of first class education, with 
sensitivity and imagination. The 
inspector found that the dev¬ 
elopment achieved this and his 
repent was subsequently described 
by tbe High Court judge reviewing 
his decision as “immaculate”. 
Yours faithfully, 

ANDREW STEBBINGS, 
desk to the Governors, 

Harrow School, 

1 High Street, 

Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex. 
February 6. 

Identity cards 

From Mrs Christopher Ross 
Sir, When paying by cheque for 
goods totalling more than £50 in a 
shop or supermarket, one is asked 
for the cheque guarantee card and 
further identification. Occasions 
when one needs to prove one’s 
identity are mounting. Most 
retailers accept a driver’s licence 
with name, address and signature 
ora rail card with photograph and 
name: 

But how many, particularly 
rural people, have no need ofa rail 
card, do not drive, have no 
savings bank account? Lack of any 
of these invites a wait at the till for 
the manager and speculation, or 
worse; in tbe eyes of onlookers. 

My Belgian and French cousins, 
with personal identity cards, live 
lives as full of civil liberties as 
min e is. It is said that the E n gli s h 
would never agree to a personal 
identity card and that the Govern¬ 
ment that introduces it commits 
political suicide. With December 
31,1992, fast approaching, has the 
time come to establish if this is 
true? 

Yours faithfully, 

FIONA ROSS, 

Wishford House, 

Nr Salisbury, Wiltshire. 

February 5. 

Victims’ rights 

From Mr T. R. Hearn 
Sir, Tbe series of new rights for 
victims of crime, outlined in the 
Home Secretary’s proposed char¬ 
ter (report, January 16), are wel¬ 
come, but will be worthless unless 
the necessary resources are pro¬ 
vided to implement them. 

When I was 58 I was mugged, 
robbed and repeatedly stabbed 
whilst walking in south London. 
On medical and police advice I 
matfe a formal chrim to the 
Criminal Injuries Compensation 
Board. 

I am now 60, and so far, I have 
received no more than a formal 
acknowledgement, giving me a 
reference number and stating that 
their resources are so stretched 
that any enquiry about the 
progress of the case “simply causes 
further delay”. 

As Lord Haflsham said in the 
House of Lords on January 16 in 
the debate on tbe Courts and Legal 
Services Bill: 

People have not begun to appreciate 
the additional resources needed to 
implement ^ chang e 

Yours faithfully, 

THOMAS HEARN, 

48 Alleyn Road, 

Dulwich, SE21. 

Grave goods 

From Mrs Beatrice R Skinner 
Sir, I have received advice from a 
life assurance society on the 
advantages of taking out a funeral 
cover plan. 

I am also offered free gifts of a 
dock radio, cordless telephone, or 
rechargeable torch. 

Can I take them with me? And 
which should I choose? 

Yours faithfully, 

BEATRICE E SKINNER, 

31 Bingham Avenue, 

Lilliput, 

Poole, Dorset 
February 1. 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 



COURT 


AND 

SOCIAL 


COURT 

CIRCULAR 


BUCKINGHAM PALACE 
February 6: The Duchess or 
York, Patroo of the Motor 
Neurone Disease Association, 
this morning received the Direc¬ 
tor (Mr Peter Gandy) and mem* 
hers of the Research Advisory 
Panel at Buckingham Palace. 

The Prince Edward arrived 
at Heathrow Airport, London, 
this morning from Sydney, 
Australia. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Sean 
O'Dwyer and Mr Geoffrey 

Crawford were in attendance. 

This morning The Princess 
Royal. President, British Knit¬ 
ting and Clothing Export Coun¬ 
cil, opened the Better Made in 
Britain “Challenge Day" at the 
Queen Elizabeth II Conference 
Centre, Westminster, London 
SWi. 

In the afternoon Her Royal 
Highness attended the Waitangi 
Day Service at Westminster 
Abbey. 

Afterwards The Princess 
Royal, President, Save the 
Children Fund, visited the 
Vietnamese Refugee Children 
Project at 26 Hanslar Grove, 
East Molesey and 113 Queen’s 
Road, Teddington, Middlesex. 

Her Royal Highness then 
attended a Reception at Hamp¬ 
ton Court House, The Green, 
East Molesey. 

In the evening The Princess 
Royal, President, Save the 
Children Fund, attended a 
Reception and Awards Dinner 
at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, 
Lancaster Terrace; London W2. 

Mrs Andrew Feilden was in 
attendance. 

KENSINGTON PALACE 
February 6: The Prince of Wales 

g .ve a lecture on the Rain 
rests, at Kew Gardens, co¬ 
hosted by the Royal Botanic 


Gardens and the Friends of the 

Earth Trust 

Co mman der Richard Aylard, 
RN, and Mr Philip Madde were 
in attendance. 

The Princess of Wales 
via ted the Oxford Regional 
Alcoholism Unit at the 
Wameford Hospital, Head- 
ington, Oxford. 

Subsequently Her Ro 
Highness visited the 
Headquarters Office and Shop 
at 274 Banbury Road, Oxford. 

Afterwards The Princess of 
Wales visited the Townsend 
House Old People’s Home, 
Headington, Oxford. 

Finally Her Royal Highness, 
Patron, Relate National Mar¬ 
riage Guidance, visited the 
Charity’s Oxford Offices at 33 
Iffley Road, Oxford. 

The Princess of Wales was 
received by Lieutenant-Colonel 
Robert Heywood-Lonsdale 
(Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of 
Oxfordshire). 

Miss Alexandra Loyd and 
Lieutenant-Commander Patrick 
Jephson, RN, were in 
attendance. 


KENSINGTON PALACE 
February 6: The Duke and 
Duchess of Gloucester were 
present ax a dinner given by His 
Excellency the Ambassador of 
Nepal (Major General Bharat 
Kesher Simha) and Madame 
Bharat Kesber Sitnha in honour 
ofThe Crown Prince ofNepal at 
12 A Kensington Alace Gar¬ 
dens, London, W8. 


YORK HOUSE 
ST JAMES'S PALACE 
February 6: The Duke of Kent, 
Vice-Chairman of the British 
Overseas Trade Board, this 
evening gave a Reception at 
York House for Members of the 
Committee of the Opportunity 
Japan Campaign. 

Mr Andrew Palmer was in 
attendance. 


Dinners 


Royal Society of Sc George 
The Lord Mayor and Lady 
Mayoress of Westminster at¬ 
tended a dinner given by the 
Royal Society of St George at 
Dartmouth House last night to 
mark the anniversary of the 
Accession ofThe Queen, patron 
of the society. Mr John 
MinshuH-Fogg, chairman, pre¬ 
sided. The Lord Mayor, Major- 
General Christopher Tyler, 
Resident Governor and Keeper 
of the Jewel House, HM Tower 
of London, Sir Colin Cole, 
Garter Principal King of Arms, 
and the Rev Basil Watson also 
spoke. Among others present 
were: 


Lady Calc. Mrs . ___, 

Dtrcdor-General or the EngllalMa 


Int Union and Mrs Hicks. Mrs Tyler 
i from uw society's 


Royal Pharmaceutical Society 
Mrs Marion Rawlings, Presi¬ 
dent of the Royal Pharmaceuti¬ 
cal Society of Great Britain, 
presided at a dinner held last 
night a 1 Lambeth High Street 
Pro fessor Dame Rosalinde Hur¬ 
ley, Chairman of the Medicines 
Commission, also spoke. 
Among others present were 


Baronos Mohan or Bod. Mr Jack 
Ashley. CH. MP and Mrs Ashley. 
Professor Sir Michael Drury. Sr 
Michael Carlisle. Professor wnuam 
Asacher. Professor Geoffrey Stephen- 
non. Mr John Hannam. MP. Mr Frank 
warns. Mr T H Fumes-. nr w R 
Tv Wesley. Dr Malcolm Godfrey and 
Malor COlon. 


Anniversaries 


.BIRTHS: Saint Thomas More, 
humanist and statesman, chan¬ 
cellor 1529-32, London, 1478; 
Philiipe Buache. geographer, 
Paris, 1700; Charles Dickens, 
Portsmouth, 1812; Sir William 
Huggins, astronomer, London, 
1824; Sinclair Lewis, novelist, 
Nobel laureate 1930, Sauk 
Centre, Minnesota, 1885. 
DEATHS: James Stewart, 2nd 
Earl of Moray (the ’bonny earl'), 
murdered Dombrisile. Fife- 
shire, 1592; William Boyce, 
organist and composer, London, 
1779; Ann RadcUiTc. novelist, 
London. IS23: Henry Neele, 
poet, committed suicide, 
London. 1828: Joseph Sheridan 
Lc Fanu. novelist, Dublin, 1373; 
Adolphe Sax, inventor of Ihe 
saxophone. Paris, 1894; Daniel 
Francois Malan. prime minister 
of South Africa 1948-54. Stellen¬ 
bosch. Cape Colony, 1959. 


Appointments 

Latest appointments include: 
Mr John Michael Wright, QC, 
to be a Justice of the High Court, 
assigned to the Queen's Bench 
Division. 

Jean Caines to be Director of 
Information. Department of 
Trade and Industry, in succes¬ 
sion to Adrian Moorey. who has 
moved to a similar post at the 
Home Office. 


Today’s royal 
engagements 


The Prince of Wales, as Presi¬ 
dent of the Prince’s Trust, 
accompanied by the Princess of 
Wales, will attend a charity 
premiere of Sted Magnolias at 
the Odeon Cinema, Leicester 
Square, at 8-00 in aid of the 
trust. 

The Princess ofWales, as Patron 
of the Natural History Museum, 
wil] open the museum's activity 
centre at 11.00. 

The Princess Royal, as Com- 
mandant-in-Chiefof the St John 
Ambulance and Nursing 
Cadets, win attend a reception 
for Grand Prior Cadets at 
Buckingham Palace at 6.00; and, 
as Patron of the College of 
Occupational Therapists, will 


attend a reception and concert 
in aid of the college at the 
Banqueting House at 8.00. 

The Duke of Gloucester, as 
President of the British Consul¬ 
tants Bureau, will open the 
Disaster Relief and Mitigation 
Conference at the Queen Eliza¬ 
beth 11 Conference Centre at 
9.25. 

The Duke of Kent will attend 
the annual dinner of the British 
Industrial Biological Research 
Association at the Royal College 
of Physicians at 6-20. 

The Duchess of Kent, as Patron 
of the Internationa] Social Ser¬ 
vice of Great Britain, will attend 
a planning meeting for the 
Spring Fair at Lancaster House 
at 10.50. 


OBITUARIES 


JOHN MERIVALE 

Bringing poise and elegance to stage and screen roles 


The actor John (“Jack”) 
Merivale died in hospital yes¬ 
terday, at the age of 72, of 
pneumonia, following a long 
illness brought about by 
hereditary renal failure. 

The son of the actor Philip 
Merivale and the actress Viva 
Birkett, he was bora on 
December 1, 1917, and edu¬ 
cated at Rugby and New 
College, Oxford. 

Lite his father, he came of a 
now rapidly vanishing fine of 
gentlemen actors, much in 
demand on both sides of the 
Atlantic, to bring elegance and 
style to drawing-room com¬ 
edies and classic revivals, 
often dominated by strong 
leading ladies such as bis own 
stepmother Dame Gladys 
Cooper. 

Merivale trained at the Old 
Vic School and then served 
throughout the war in both the 
RAF and the Royal Canadian 
Air Force, as a pilot with the 
86th squadron. 

Id 1941 he married the 
actress Jan Staling and made 
much of his early career in the 
United States, appearing in 
the Laurence Ohvier-Vivien 
arii production of Romeo 
a Juliet* which ran briefly 
on Broadway in 1940, as well 
such later and more 
successful New York stagings 
as the Cecal Beaton produc¬ 
tion of Lady Windermere's 
Fan in 1946, and the Rex 
Harrison Anne of a Thousand 
Days in 1948. 

After his divorce from Jan 
Sterling in that year, Merivale 
returned to England, appear¬ 
ing in such long-running West 
End comedies as William 
Douglas-Home's The Reluc¬ 
tant Debutante (with Anna 
Massey) while also making a 
name for himself on screen, 
often as an officer and gentie- 



With Anna Massey in The Reluctant D ebut a n t e (1935) 
men of remarkably stiff upper tion and divorce from 


lip in such films as King Rat, 
Arabesque and Hie Lid of 
Adrian Messenger. 

In A Night to Remember he 
gave one of his most memo¬ 
rable performances as the 
husband who goes down with 
the Titanic* having seen his 
family safely into the lifeboats. 

At the time of her separa- 


Laurence Olivier, Merivale 
began to five with Vivien 
Leigh, and spent the last ten 
years of her life frequently 
sacrificing his own career in 
order to protect the actress not 
only from her own worst 
instincts, but also from an 
outside world which to her 
had often began to seem 


impossible. Together they 
played in London and cm a 
world tour in Duel of Angels 
(1958) and in John Gielgud's 
Broadway staging of Ivanov. 
(1965). It was Merivale who 
discovered Leigh’s body when 
returning one night from a 
stage appearance in Guildford 
in 1967. 

Two years later, while again 
appearing at the theatre in 
GmkU&rd, Merivale was to 
meet the third actress in his 
life and the one who was to 
devote herself to him during 
his long later illness in pre¬ 
cisely the same setfsacrificial 
way that he had devoted 
himself to Vivien Leigh: Di¬ 
nah Sheridan. 

He married her on May 29, 
1986, but they had already 
been together for almost 20 
years following her divorce 
from Sir John Davis of the 
Rank Organisation, and al¬ 
though Men vale’s increasing 
physical fragility meant that 
they were all too seldom able 
to work together in public, 
they remained in private the 
most devoted and constant of 
couples. 

Jack, as he was always 
known to a hugely extended 
fiunily of step chUdreo, friends 
and other relatives, was one of 
those men who exemplified 
the notion of grace under 
pressure, the pres su re in his 
case being that of a painful 
and debilitating illness which 
had killed his father at 59, and 
for which he knew there was 
still no real cure despite the 
best medical attention in the 
world. 

As Robert Moriey, himself a 
distant relative by marriage, 
said last night, "The great 
thing about Jack was that in 
the worst of health he always 
retained the best of spirits.” 


PROFESSOR JOHN 
DODGSON 

Fresh light on the etymology^ 

of English place-names = 



The death of John Dodgson, jUfenol^-— 
at the age of 61, has robbed here one can ^amewdy to* 
EngliilipkcMiame studks of * 


one of its elder statesmen and 
one of its most outstanding 
scholars. In particular, the 
publication of his pioneering 
research on _ Anglo-Saxon 
place-names, in the 1960s, 
shed new light on the dating 
and status of such names, and 
challenged what had, to that 


number u... . 
a dagger, indicating items npt 
recorded in English Place- 

Name Elements. •«; 

It is a matter for deep regret 

that Dodgson never com¬ 
pleted the final volume, iro 
which be could have beet) 


Sr? 


UUaUCligvU muu uau, iv riiov uv ~ 

point, been orthodoxy in such expected to drew together the 
matters. evidence he had found, throw- 

A University College ing fight on local dialect, Io^ 
London man throughout us history, historical geography 


career, and a Fellow of the 
College, he began work on a 
survey of Cheshire, fixst as a 
research student, then as edi¬ 
tor for the English Place- 
Name Society. 

His magnum opus is his 
Place-Names of Cheshire. The 
first four volumes comprise 


and various aspects of tj|r* 
history of the la nguage . But, 
th ere six volumes stand as h 
n re fli prial to his scholarships: 

for which he was justly re¬ 
warded with the title of 
Professor. 

At the same time Dodgson 
was o ne of a small group o£i 


over 1300 pages, the next two scholar who took part in wtot 


some 80 pages on 
itself; together with an analy¬ 
sis of the place- and field- 
name elements. As with all 
modern county place-name 
surveys, the task of collecting 
the material for an enormous 
number of place-names is 
immense; field-name forms 
must run to tens of thousands, 
when there are almost 300 for 
a single parish like Bonington. 

The task of editing the 
collection was equally im¬ 
mense. Frequently Dodgson’s 
discussion of a single name 
tuns to a page or more — that 
for Bromborough runs to 
three; and he was never afraid 
of flying a kite or of correcting 
an etymology when a col¬ 
league suggested a more 
convincing alternative. 

The analysis of the elements 


or- 


JANE NOVAK 

Fragile and reclusive heroine from the heyday of silent Westerns 


Luncheons 


Lord Metlisfa 

Lord Mellish was host at a 
luncheon of the House of Lords 
All-Party Building Industry 
Group held yesterday at the 
House of Lords. Mr Robert G. 
Smith, President of the London 
region of the Building Employ¬ 
ers Confederation, and Mr John 
Parsons. Chairman of the BEC 
Economic and Public Affairs 
Group, were the speakers. 

English-Speaking Union 
Mr David Hicks, Director-Gen¬ 
eral of the English-Speaking 
Union of the Commonwealth, 
and Mrs Valeric Mitchell, dep¬ 
uty director-general, received 
the guests at a literary luncheon 
held yesterday at Dartmouth 
House. Mr Denis Healey, CH. 
MP. was the guest of honour and 
speaker. Mr Merlyn Rees. MP, 
governor, presided and the 
director general also spoke: 


Service dinner 


Mr L. A. Pavitt 


A service of thanksgiving for the 
life and work of Mr Laurence 
Aosuce Pavi it will be held at 
noon, on Thursday. February 
IS. 1990. in St Margaret's 
Church. Westminster. All are 
welcome. 


Royal Nary Chib of 1765 and 
1785 

Mr Tom King. Secretary of State 
for Defence, attended a dinner 
held last night at the Naval and 
Military Club to mark the 225lh 
anniversary (February 4) of the 
founding of the Royal Navy 
Club of 1765 and 1785. Admiral 
Sir Nicholas Hunt, chairman of 
the dub. presided. Admiral Sir 
Julian Oswald. First Sea Lord, 
other members of the Admiralty 
Board and Captain Peter 
Fanshawe. retiring secretary, 
were present. 


Jane Novak, who was regu¬ 
larly snatched from the jaws of 
death in the days of the sflent 
movies, has died in America 
at the age of 94. 

Her co-star Wifliam S Hart, 
who regularly did the snatch¬ 
ing from savage hordes and 
runaway trains in a series of 
Westerns, died in 1946. In his 
declining years the reclusive 
Hart allowed few people near 
him, but his screen love Jane 
Novak was among the fa¬ 
voured few. 

She began her career in 1915 
and appeared sporadically in 
pictures up to 1950. In all she 
made 110 films, playing the 
female lead in many of them. 

Jape Novak was an im¬ 
mediate success in films after 
coming to Hollywood from St 
Louis with her sister in 1914. 
Initially each earned about 
$10 a week. Eva who died in 
1988 became a favourite co- 
star of cowboy actor Tom 
Mix. 

Jane teamed up with the 


one time Shakespearean actor, 
William S. Hart (the “S" was 
reckoned to stand for Shake¬ 
speare), who turned from the 
stage to play cowboy roles 
which made much use of his 
rugged and none too mobile 
features. 

At one time Hart and Jane 
Novak were engaged. To¬ 
gether they made a series of 
Westerns which included Self 
isk Yates (1918) and Wagon 
Trades (also 1918). 

Although the relationship 
with Hart became personal 
and on-going, Jane Novak’s 
best-remembered film. Eyes of 
the World (1917) was made 
without him. Her last epic in 
1929, the half-sound, half¬ 
colour Redskin (1929) was 
with Richard Dix. It remains a 
favourite of film buffi. 

In 1922 she sailed to Eng¬ 
land and Germany for three 
productions by Sir Michael 
Balcon. It was in a Balcon film 
that she first met Alfred 
Hitchcock, then a young set 


designer who remained a 
friend of hen until his death. 

Over the years she was cast 
opposite some of Hollywood's 
most attractive and successful 
male stars — William Des¬ 
mond Taylor, Hobart 
Bosworth, Lewis Stone, Wal¬ 
lace Beery, Sessue Hayakawa, 
and of course Hart and Mix. 
She appeared in some of the 
first Harold Lloyd comedies 
and her producers ranged 
from Hal Roach to Hal Wallis 
for whom she made her final 
pictures, The File on Thelma 
Jordan and Paid in Full, in 
1950. 

In a newspaper interview in 
1982 in which the two sisters 
reminisced, Eva said that her 
sister was a true actress while 
she had made films solely for 
the money. 

Both Jane and Eva contin¬ 
ued to draw the attention of 
fans into the final years. 

Jane is survived by her 
daughter. 



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The Novak sisters, Jane (left) and Eva 


Dodson was not chaHere- 
ing the etymology of the placer 
names in question, ratter the 
significance and status of the 
names. In this he was in a 
small and brave band flf 
pioneers. •»« 

I'd 

As a tectnrer Dodgson was 
witty, fluent and enthusiast^ < 
Nor should the BBC Tete**J 
vision programme of the 3 
1970s (recently repeated) be 
forgotten, with its enduring 
images of John Dodgson aru£a 
group of researchers traciqg 
the bounds of an Anglo-Saxon 
charter through the streets fcf 
London. 

He leaves his widow, Joyoe^ 
a son and a daughter. 


Calls to the Bar 


The following have been called 
to the Bar in Hillary Term; 
Middle Temple 

J Caveney. Cnptoma in MaouicrUJ 


Law Manchester Poly; C J w Benson. 

B Admin (Hons) Dundee Unlv. BA and 

ULM WaWofl ColL Cambridge: MJn A 

r Rea. LLB (Hons) wolvrnumMon 

Poly: R S Rairnrtumdran. LLM 
WIST. Diploma In Law. City Unlv: 
MISS R E Champion. BSc (Horn) 

Hatfield Poly: J J Hannan. LLBCHora) 

WotvemamMon PMy: M K G Wat¬ 
kins. LLB (Hons i wolvernamWon 
Poly: S Sandhu. LIB (Hons) 
Birmingham Uarv. BA. DAV Coll. 
PuniaD: MBS & E W Quinn. LLH 
(Hons) (One's Colt London: L J R 

Church. LLB iHonsi London School 

Economics. Mrs N M wmieside. LLB 

(Honsi Lancashire Pob~ A E Pain. 

LLB (Moral Leeds Poly: A CnaudMni. 
LLB (HOTts i Umv Coil London: MHe C 
L Kennedy-Mocilson. BA (Hml 
wotvcrtuunpMn Poly: Mi M A 

OuCKwortn. LLB (Hons) Lancashire 

POBr. Mbs S M Massey. BA (Hons) 

Manchester Poly: C Shenton. LLB 

(Hons) Eduiburen Unlv and Scottish 

adsocate: J Simpson. LLB London 

Unlv: P F C Rowlands. BA lHansj 

KdMc Call. Oxford. 


Inner Temple 

MrltJHV PhUHiK. MA S John's 

Call. Cambridge. CPE Poly of Wales: 

MISS C M Haidary. BA Unlv East 

An«ua. Dtp Law CHy Unlv: Mr J A 

Roboihom. LLB ■'•ianchesicr Unlv: 
MBs D S Could. LLB Warwick umv: 
Mr N Kune. BA Unis' Kent at 

Canterbury. Mr N P Bcmty, LLO 

Queen Mary Coil. Unlv London: Mia 

B L AsMon LLB BudUngtum Unlv; 

Mr A B Razhan- LLB Reading Unlv; 

Miss B S McVay. LLB London School 

Economics: Mbs M Pawdoannou. LLB 

Southampton unlr. MW L C LhwH. 

BSc Surrey UM«. LLM Kiel Unli. w 

Germany: Mr J J Anders. LLB 
Klnooton Poly: Miss V J HaUefL LLB 

Leicester Poly: Mr D L Araouzra. BA 

end LLM Robinson Coll. CjmbrMor: 

MBS H M Ryan. LLB North London 

Pciy: Mr D J Cain. LLB Trent Poly: 

Mr P M Chard. BSc Plymouth Poly. 

Dip Law City umv Mr I T Hopkins. 
LLB Mdocnelfr Pohr: Mr R t Trevis. 
llb Brsaol Ptuy: Mr C J I Ramsay. 

LLB KUWon «»oty • Mr A F M Casteal. 

BA Oriel ColL Oxford: Miss S L 

Nadarauh. LLB Eaunt Coil of HC Mr 

M A Fullerton. BA and LLB. umv 

Melbourne: Mr J C Metcalf. BSc 
Bristol Unlv. MSc Craidletd Institute 
of Technology. 


Lincoln's Inn 

J Dadd. LLB (Horn) B&rnfngtuun Poly: 
Mrs B 3ior*y. LLB (Hons) 
Bimilnpfiam PMy: Seah Ena Cher. 
LLB (Horn) Umv London: Miss H K 

Karroo. LLB (Hons) Unlv London: Mm 
M P McFartanr. LLB iHons) Poly 


Nora East London: Mm h m a Hoe 
Jowl LLB moral Unlv London. 
Mm J A E RcKTKnan. BSoc Sc 
(Law/pettiest Unlv KMte: M S Shed. 
LI B (Hons) Poly Leicester: M J 
Gordon. LLB (Mods) Umv 
Blrnitnoriam: Mm L A Barnes. LLB 
iHopl Trent Poly; Mm V N Groves. 

bsc- Ercn (HonsTLittv con. Cardiff, a 

j nicnener. llb ihoom unit Leeds. 

Urn Sena CM. Bsc (Moral umv 
Malaya. .LLB (Hons) Poly Central 
London: Walker Sham w« Man. LLO 

(Him) Unlv Lancaster: MU* S L 

McCraib. BSoc Sc Untv Horn Kora. 

LLB i Hops' Unlv London. Ms S T GUI. 

BA iHonsi ucuv Manchester-. S F 

Burner. t) Comm and LLB Umv 
SHIlraboKS. LLM King's Coll 
London. 


Gray's Inn 

J D Brooks. LLB. Unlv Con of Wales. 
CardCT: P R Lee. LLB. Unlv Lancaster. 

J C canm. BA. Trinity Coll. Dublin. T 

R Havaially. BA. LLO. Queen Mary 

Cod London: D PanoM. LLB. Unlv 

Buckingham. LLM. Unlv New York. 

M J J WDHun. LLO Bristol Poly. M F 

J Brawn. BA. N SUUTocOMUcv Poly: M 

A Souutmi. ba. Unrv Warwick: M j 

Fordham. BA. BCL. Hertford Coll. 
Oxford LLM. Lldv Virginia: A J 
Bedford. LLB. Unrv Warwick. LLM. 

Darwin CoH. Camhrtdoe. 5 J Knapp. 

BA. wekXleid ColL London: M J 
Lavery. LLB. Liverpool Poty: D I 
ToaL US. Liverpool Poly. P s 
Talboys BA. Maodalm Coll Ovlord: 
P C Tenner. LLB. Unlv Csvnc. P 
HedJpy. LLB. London School of 
Economics D w Greaves. LLB. Unlv 

Southampton: D C Commies. LLB. 

Untv Hull. POP Choo Ter. LLB Unlv 

London: P Marlin. LLB. Unlv London. 

MA Sheffield UnJv; G Own. LLB. Unlv 

London. T J Turner. 11.F1. Unlv 
Sheffield: D H Williams. BA. Lnlv 
U-KSA?. 


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SCIENCE REPORT 


Putting competitors in the shade 


For many plants, the ability to stay in the 
sunlight despite the encroachment of 
neighbouring plants can make the dif¬ 
ference between life and death. 

In competition for life-girins light, those 
seedlings which pot most of their effort into 
shoo ring upwards, outgrowing their rivals, 
are often the only ones to sarrive. 

Bat bon- can a plant know when its 
nearest neighbour Is getting too dose for 
comfort? A report in the January 19 issue of 
Science (to! 247, pp 329-331) shows Chat 
seedlings con respond to the presence of 
neighbours even before they begin to be 
shaded. 

Carlos Ballare. and a team of ecologists 
from the University of Buenos Aires. 
Argentina, grew seedlings of white mustard 
{Ssnapis alba) and Datura ferox, one of the 
nightshade family, varying the density of 
plants from one plot to another to make the 
competition for light more or less severe. 

The more crowded the plots, the taller 
seedlings from both speck?, grew, soggesi- 
ing that someting indicated to the plants 
that competitors were efose by, aad 
encouraged foster growth. 


The researchers suspected that a mol¬ 
ecule called phytechromc was involved in 
the rapid stem-lengthening response. 
Phytochrome, a bine-green pigment, regu¬ 
lates many plant responses to light, and is 
sensitive to the ratio of red light to “fcir-rcd" 
light, which has a slightly longer wave¬ 
length. The reflected light from plants 
contains a greater fraction of far-red than 
direct senJight. so the Argentinian team 
wondered if the seedlings were taking their 
growth cues from the intensity of far-red 
tight reflected from their neighbours. 

To red nee the far-red light reaching the 
seedlings* stems, transparent flasks were 
placed around a stem section on some 
seedlings, and filled with either bine copper 
sulphate solution, which filtered mu much 
of the far-red light, or water. As the 
researchers had expected, plants sur¬ 
rounded by the far-red filtering solution 
responded much less strongly' to the 
presence of neighbours. 

Bet this effect happened at relatively low 
seedling densities, where plants were dose 
but not actually shading one another. The 
Argentinians suspect that aa ability to 


respond to potential competitors, before 
shading begins, may be crucial to survival, 
bat that once plants are put in the shade by 
a faster growing neighbour, the battle is 
lost. 

The next step will be to sec if this 
mechanism is relevant in the real world and 
not just in experiments plots of Ballare and 
fats colleagues, where only single species is 
permitted and the plants are all the same 
age. In natural plant canopies, there are 
plants of many different species and cues 
growing together, and there may be a great 
variety of photochemical signals that can 
influence the pattern of plant growth. 

But the simplicity and elegance of their 
experiments persuades the researchers that 
differences in the effectiveness of plants' 
far-red sensing “early warning system** 
may be the main reason why some plants 
are aMe to get a bead start and put their 
competitors in the shade. 


Peter Aldhous 


Q Na&re-umM News Samoa. 1990 


Forthcoming marriages 


Mr P. Manoosso 
and Lady Rose Cholmondeley 
The engagement is announced 
between Paul, son of the laic 

L. E Manousso and Mrs Anna 
Manousso. of Hampstead. 
London. NW3, and Rose, 
daughter of the Marquess and 
Marchioness of Cholmondeley, 
of Cholmondeley Castle. 
Malpas. Cheshire. 

Mr P. Bennett-Jones 
and Miss A.E. Watts 
The engagement is announced 
between Peter, son of Dr and 
Mrs N. Bcnnctl’Jnnes. of 
Rhosneigr. Anglesey, and 
Alison, daughter of Mr and Mrs 

M. V. Watts, of Nympsficld. 
Gloucestershire. 

Mr C.D. Blackwood 
and Miss C.R. Whitfield 
The engagement is announced 
between Clive David, eldest 
son of Mr and Mrs 
David Blackwood, of Pech Brae. 
Kilmardinny Avenue, Bcars- 
dcn. Glasgow, and Caroline 
Rosemary, only daughter of Mr 
and Mis Terence J. Whitfield, of 
Labrador City. Newfoundland. 
Canada, and of SomcrseL The 
marriage will take place on June 
30. in London. 


Captain R JLD. Griffin 
and Miss L.M. Morris 


Mr DjS. Norerre 
and Miss D J. Ross 


The engagement is announced 
between Captain Ralph Griffin. 
The Life Guards, son of Mr and 
Mrs Griffin, of Newton Court, 
Monmouth, Gwent, and Louise, 
daughter of Mr and Mrs Owen 
Morris, ol' Auckland, New 
Zealand. 


The engagement is announced 
between David, only son of Mr 
and Mrs D. Noverrc, of London 
and Diana, eldest daughter of 
Dr and Mrs P.E. Ross, of 
Dundee, Scotland. 


Pilot Officer R.L. Mackmardic 
and Miss S. Gurteen 


Mr N.A. Slater 
and Dr L-A.F. Henley 


The engagement is announced 
between Robert, son of Mr and 
Mrs D.C.R. Mackmuniic. of 
Brighton. Sussex. and 
Stephanie, daughter of Mr and 
Mrs Stephen Gurteen. of The 
Dower House, by Bailey's Pool. 
Pakcnfum. Suffolk. 


The engagement is announced 
between Nicholas, son of Mr 
and Mrs Robert Slater, of Ascot, 
Berkshire, and Lucy, daughter 
of the late Mr Arthur Henley 
and of Mrs Patsy Henley, of 
Speldhurst. Kent. 


Mr AJ. Stevenson-Hamflton 
and Miss S. Srebric 


Mr SJ. Bonnington 
and Mbs C.D. Ibrichard 
The engagement is announced 
between Stuan John, younger 
son of Mr and Mrs B.R. 
Bonnington. of Woking, Surrey, 
and Catherine Denise, younger 
daughter of Professor and Mrs 
B.N.C. Pnchard. of Wands¬ 
worth Common. London. 

Mr D4. Erlston 

and Miss It.M. Purser 

The engagement is announced 

between David John, younger 
5 <in of Mr Ronald Ertsion. of 
Malmesbury. Cape Province, 
and Mrs Audrey Lunih. of 
Harare, and Harriet Mary, elder 
daughter of Mr and Mr? Gavin 
Purser, of Tel vet Cottage. 
Cltarl wood. Surrey. 


Mr J.C. Martin 
and Miss R.L. Jago 

The engagement is announced 
between Jonathan Charles, son 
of Mrs Gordon Howard, of 
Southwick, Sussex, and the laic 
Mr Frank Martin, and Rebecca 
Lucy, only daughter of Mr and 
Mrs Thomas Jago, of 
Kivermead Court, London 
SW6. 


The engagement is announced 

between Andrew John, son of 
Mr and Mrs J.C. Stevenson- 
Hamillon, of Fairholm, Lanark¬ 
shire. and Sonia, daughter of the 
laic Mr Nicholas Srebric and of 
Mrs Georgina CouJthard, of 
Kensington. London. 


Mr S.C. Willis Fleming 
and Miss M. Lawson 


Mr E.G-S. Martyn 
and Miss A.T. HiMyard 


The engagement is announced 
between Edward, eldest son of 
the laic Denys Martyn and of 
Mrs Paul Adair, of Gilwcrn. 
Gwent, and Anna, only daugh¬ 
ter of the late Mr and Mrs John 
Evans Hildyard. of London. 


The engagement is announced 
between Somerset, eldest son of 
the late Peter Willis Fleming 
and of Mrs P.E Willis Fleming, 
of Duckings, Blackboys, Sussex, 
and Melanie, granddaughter of 
the late Jacob Lawson and of 
Mis J.K. Lawson, of Saffron 
Walden, Essex. 


Mr J.D. MrKciuJe Smith 
and Miss- FJ. Kelly 

The engagement is announced 
between Duncan, son of Mr and 
Mrs A, McKenzie Smith, of 
Fanthorough. Hams, and Fiona, 
daughter «V Mr and Mrs R.C. 
Stevenson. of Liverpool. 


Mr M.L. Wilson 
and Mhs C.M.E. Lace 

1 he engagement is announced 
between Mark Lithgow. son of 
Mr and Mrs Simon Wilson, of 
BaUochmome, South Ayrshire, 
and Cainona Mary Elizabeth 
youngest daughter of Mr and 
Mrs John Luce, of Winchester, 
Hampshire, 


Birthdays today 


MrG.T. Banks. Registrar Gen¬ 
eral for England and Wales. 57: 
Lord Bellwin. 67; Mr P.W. 
Bennett, former chairman. 
W.H. Smith and Son Holdings, 
73; Mrs Caroline Bingham, 
writer. 52; Lord Bottom ley, S3; 
Miss Dora Bryan, actress. 66; 
the Earl of Cork and Orrery, SO; 
Professor Sir Clifford Darby, 
geographer. SI; Mr Gerald Da¬ 
vies. rugby player. 45; the Eariof 
Harcwood. 67; Mr Michael 
James, writer and nudear en¬ 
ergy adviser. 49; Lord Keith of 


Kinkcl. 68; Sir John Leahy, 
diplomat. 62: Dr Barbara 
MacGibbon. pathologist. 62; Sir 
George Moseley, civil servant. 
65: Mr GJ. Mulcahy. executive 
chairman. Kingfisher, 48; Sir 
Philip Myers, former chief con¬ 
stable. North Wales Police. 59: 
Sir Geoffrey Peacock, former 
Remembrancer of the City of 
London, 70; Sir Robert Reid, 
chairman. British Railways 
Board, 69; Mr R.W. Watson, 
former dircciorgcacraJ NFU, 
64: Sir Brian Windeycr. radiol¬ 
ogist and former vice-chan¬ 
cellor. London University, 86. 


Latest wills 


Lady Rradkstoua, of London 
SW3, a director since 1969 of 
Yves Saint Laurent’s first Rive 
Gauche boutique in Britain, left 
estate valued at £M 12.678 net. 
Vice-Admiral Sir John Fclgatc 
Sftven», of Hastemcrs, Surrey, 
former C-in-C America and' 
West Indies station, left estate 
valued at £498,033- 


Mr !an Stanley Scoct-Kiiwn. of 
London W4, former chairman 
of the Byron Society, left estate 
valued at £433,465 net. 


W 


English-Speaking; 
Union of - 

Sri Lanka ' 


President Ranasinghc Pr& 
madasa. President of Sri Lanka^ 
yesterday formally declared, 
open the new Head Quarters of 
the ESU of Sri Lanka at 314/2 \ 
GaJle Road, Colombo. TBe \ 
Head Quarters include the Eng-ti 
fish Language School, Wynne- '< 
Parker Library and ; 
Administrative offices. > 

The President was received by I 
Former President J.R. i 
Jayewardene. Patron of the ESU J- 
of South Asia, who presided. { 
Mr Michael Wynnc-Parkcr. v; 
Founder of the ESU of Sri 
Ifflka and President of the ESU •' 
or South Asia, outlined the l 
history of the ESU in Sri Lanfr-i . 
since 1981. : 

Jte ofoer speakers were: Dr 
Terence Axncrasingfae, Pres i - • 
dent or the ESU of Sri tanta, * 
His Excellency David Glad- ! 
stone. British High Commis- J- 
sioner, the Hon Rani! ; 
wtekremasinghe. Minister of * 
Industries, and the Hon WJ.M. • 
Lokubandara, Minister of Edu- •" 
cation. Cultural Affairs and *. 
Information. ESU represent- • 
a lives from Britain. Nepal, In- « 
dia, Pakistan and the Maidive • 
islands were also pre s ent. I " 


Marriages 


Victoria 


Brigadier P. Tower 
The Hon Mrs 
A PS ton 

The marriage took place on F‘ 
February 6. in London, between * 
Brigadier Peter Tower, of 24 ). 
Ormonde Gate, Chelsea. SW3, i* 
and ihe Hon Mrs Victoria ? 
ApMon. or 8 Mulberry Walk, . 
Chelsea. SW3. “ r 

Mr M. Btatridee r * 

end MhsL. CarroU C { 
The marriage took place on K 
Tuesday. February 6, 1990. In * 
Fiji. between Mr Mark Burbidce -Z 
and Mbs Louise Carroll. * 


^ ChabmA s j. 

«Jd Mrs MJ. Carter : \ 

Thc marriaes took place On * 
2 . «0 Islington, t 
M/ Robert Glazebrook •: 
and Mrs Marion Jane Carter,- * 


Lady Cullen 
of Ashbourne 


44 


Udy CuHcn of Ashbourne fe- £ 
Sir 3 *'K 






is known in 

cfes as the —- 

revolution (in that its protagp'jf 
nists were mature scholars* 
not “Young Tories” anxiousfQ 
take issue with their elders assn 

matter of course). Nevertlfer 

less they did challenge 
ass u mp t i ons about place- 
name chronology, which, t hffi , , - 
had inherited from their 9e* 
nktis. i4 

Dodgson’s decisive corn*, 
nitration is to be seen in the 
lengthy papers: “The Signifi¬ 
cance of the Distribution oL 
English Place-Names fg r 
-»n g as,-tn g a in South-east Eng¬ 
land” (Medieval Archaeology 
1966), together with “Various 
forms of Old English -ing Si 
English Place-Names” and" 
“The -ing in English Placet- 
Names film Bi rmingham mM 
Altrincham” ( BeUr&ge zwr 
Namenforsckung, Heidelberg^ . 
1967 and 1968). _*• 

The first was the most.' 
influential. There DodgsonT 
suggested that such namۤ~ 
belonged not to the invasion 
phase of Anglo-Saxon settle¬ 
ment (5th-6th century) but 
rather to a later 
phase (late 6tb-7th cent 
In 1966 this was a 
piece, chalks, 
wisdom, and he followed it by 
an article on ham place-names 
in Kent, Surrey and Sussex* 
which made equally thought: 
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17 


ANNOUNCEMENTS & PERSONAL 


25 


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owe;:* muy nbgwTttn 
flmJofih our knowieora o< 
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January 270i 1990. at me 
Cuntow du Chlteau de u 
" j**^*; y «afcUleg. Prance, to 
£££ U *^* a,UWl1 “"d 

tfratEB-On February 3m at 
—- Portland HosmStS 
' and. Michael. 

———-•a™*On Sunday 

AAruary 4Hi. al tS 
. Ttarwteh Maternity UnH. to 
Jb -Wendy and John, a son 
W Marcus. A brother for Holly 
COLLMBWOOD 7L 

2%nruary 4m. to Jm and 
John, a son, Thomas David. 
i>tnm r Iter Lucy 
DMMUt - On Fettruarv 3rd 
499 0. at Queen Charkxwv. 
ttf Judy and Allan, twin 
Uwwhiws. Lucy and Amy 
- On February 

,nto Tho "»"®w 

and David, a son. James 

Andrew 

• • B MM B. — On 

rannary 4th. at The 
Ptmtand HocpttaL to Russell 

and Geraldine, a dauonur 
- tturibertv Rente. ^ 
WOTWttUTni - On Janu- 
aot24ih.4n Sydney to Sarah 
*t«e Mason) and Philip, a 
«an. Charles Alexander. 

JACKSON - On February oth. 
JO- Sally (n^e. Rosser) and 
.Paul, a son. Thomas Henry 
Mntsrancr - On January 
389th. NMsUy. at U.CJt.. to 
- (nte Jovtt) and 
>■ * _ daughter, 

i Diana Stewart. 

-On January arm. al 
Portland Hospital, to 

--eia O’Grady and David 

Mason, a daughter. Euzabeth 
Freda. ~ 

MBHJCOTT — On February 
1990. at The william 
p Hospital. Ashford, to 
(nte Fletcher) and 
x. a daughter 

Ine EtaabettT^ 

.• On February 4th 
•4990. to Richard and 
Poiwlope tnCe Qtdley- 

IflMtiBl a daughter. 

Georgina Clare. 

*»CIL£Vr»KY . on February 
ML al The Portland Hospital. 
“ Vicky and Chuck, a 
liter. Laura Lee. 

-BOWERY - On Febru¬ 
ary 4th. to Caroline and 
Hemy. a daughter. Phoebe, a 
swter for Alex a and Flora. 





--- On Saturday 

ffebraaiy 3rd 1990. to Julia 
(nte Halle) and David, a 
daughter. Christina Mary. 
MlUUON • On February 
1990, at St David's 
.ltd, Cardiff 1 , to 'Anne 
___ ) Bowyert.and Martin, a 
■daughter (Victoria 

Katharine 1. a sister for David 
. and Andrew. 


DEATHS 


_ - On February 4th. 

Waceftifly al SI Theresa's 
Rhine. Wimbledon. JessKa. 
Med 73 years, widow of the 
law Kenneth Cotertdge Boles. 
Funeral Service at Putney 
VMe Crematorium on 
February 12th al 11.30 am. 
BOWEN • On February fith 
>990. aged BO. Reginald D. 
fe L. University or Stras¬ 
bourg. Husband of Dorothy 
and. father of Anthony. 
Elizabeth and RIChNrd. Fu¬ 
neral at St Mary the Virgin. 
HjsUesMm-Thaines. cm Mon¬ 
day February i2th at x.30 
pm. followed by private cre¬ 
mation. FamSy Dowers only. 
BRITTON • On February fith 
1990.. Dr. Colin Michel, figed 
46 yeaics. Beloved husband of 
Kamau and fattier of Steven 
pnd Jaqidta. lovuig son of the 
late Hat mato toglst Dr. Cedric 
and vamlta Britton, brother 
Of Dr. Keilh Britton and Mrs 
Jackie Neyton. peacefully In 
Bangkok, after a long illness, 
bravely endured. He will be 
greatly mused and was 
dearly loved by family in 
New Zealand and 
^Switzerland and many 
Y friends. 

BtMtLMO - On February 3rd. 
2: The Royal Maraden 
Hosnttal. Matthew Charles. 
Beloved elder son of Ann and 
Die late Dennis Charles 
Burling and brother of 
Thomas and Harriet, Loved 
ffy so many Ha courage and 
Humour wfll always be 
•remembered. Funeral 

Sfmce at St Peter's Church. 
Hambfedoo. Surrey, on 
February toth at 2 pm. 
Family flowers only. 
BURTON • On February 3rd 
1990. (Bertie), suddenly In 
bW* 31 Much loved 
husband of Susan, beloved 
father of Tony and Amanda, 
and brother of Betty. 
Fdrmerty Managing Director 
of I.T.T. Asia Pacific (Malay 
siai. Cremation at Haycotnbe 
Crematorium. Whileway 
Road. Bam. on February 9th 
9.40 am. Donations to British 
Lung Foundation. Family 


176 

Setty 


*®*^On F^uary 5th logo. 

EJE'u'jy W home. Cum 
“new 

vajrS^ rvH * * l Pwtn «y 

*2iOnitetery on Tuesday 

fSSES** lsu> « »2 ww? 

Famtty flowers only. 

1990 i J f ,uary 30m 

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Donations in lieu lo me 
Men and Women 
J<ln * Moms. 
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Station. Lincoln. 

°?S2> ‘- fo F ebruary am 
“J""* after ■ long 
illness borne witn great 
forage and example Diane 
tnee ftewsoni. aged 6B years 
Wife of the late Basil Eager 
beloved momer of Nicnotas 
and devoted granamomer of 
~** an<s «' and Barnaby 
^myai Service to be lartaai 
Inmbndge Wells 

crematorium on Monday 

F^S r> n 12yi * 2 30 Pm 
Family flowers only, but 
donations if desired to 
Cancer Research. 
SUA«MUNntEY - On 
5*™ ary 3 rd - Reverend 
PWbp. suddenly al Terry's 
C«W. HenlieM. Sussex. 
Beloved husband of Pat and 
d«r brother erf Theo. 
Fwiera! Service ai worthing 
Crematorium on Tuesday 
February |3 Ui at 12 noon 
flower* and enquiries to R 
VinaU. Neptown Road. 
Henflekl. telephone. (0273) 
492281. 

FlIKkE R A LP - On February 
4th 199a peacefully and 
bravely al hone. Peter. 
Husband of Carol, rather of 
Julian. David and Ann. 
Funeral Service al Reading 
Crematorium cm Friday 
February 9th 1990 at 3 16 
pm. All flowers and enquiries 
please to C.H. Lovegrove 
Funeral Directors. 114-116 
Oxford Road. Reading, 
telephone; (0734) 672016. 

S HA M ES SMITH - On February 
5tti- unexpectedly but 
peacefully. Manorte. of 
Ingrave. Brentwood. Dearest 
wife of Douglas, beloved 
mother of Saliyann and 
Jenifer and sadly missed 
grandmother. A Funeral 
Service will be held al St 
Nicholas'. Ingrave. on 
Tuesday February 13th al 

11 am. followed by 
cremation. Family (lowers 
only, but donations If desired 
to The * Brentwood 
Community Hospital may be 
sml to Bennetts Ltd.. 120 
High Street Brentwood. 
CM 14 4AS. 

HAYCOCK - On February 3rd 
1990. quietly at home, aftei 
an Illness fought with great 
courage. Steven John, aged 
37. deeply loved and 
mourned by his mother 
Joan, tus sister GUHan and 
brother-in-law Robert, htt 
nephew James and niece 
Charlotte, and by his friend 
Ellas. Funeral Service on 
Friday February 9th at ?.4f 
pm at The West London 
Crematorium. Harrow Road. 
London wio. Flowers may 
be sent to J.H. Kenyon Lid.. 

12 CMiiern Street. London 
W1M 1PD. 

HUNTER' - On February 6th 
199a fuweftiHy al 
Cirencester. Alan Wilfred, 
formerly of Kenya and 
Spain. Father of Carolyn. 
Nigel and RocheL Funeral 
Service Monday. February 
12th. 11-30 am-.- .al ' 

Kingadown . ‘ Crematorium. 
Swindon.- - Family flowers 
only. Donations if des i re d to 
Cirencester Hospital League 
of Friends, c/o Packer & 
Slade (Funeral Directors), l 
City Bank Road. Cirencesier. 

K B — W - On February 6th 
199a MTS. - Patncta. of 
Martborougb. wots., peace¬ 
fully at home. Funeral as St 
Thomas More. Marlborough, 
on February 9th at 2^0 pm. 
Family Dowers only. 

KITCMN - On February 4th. 
peacefully at home. Alfred, 
aged SB years. Beloved 
husband of Rosemary and 
devoted tattier of Joanna and 
Emma. Requiem Mass at 
Belmont Abbey. Hereford, 
on Friday February 9th at 
2.30 pro. followed by 
Interment at Seilacfc Parish 
Churchyard. Family flowers 
only please- Donations if so 
desired to Herefordshire 
Cancer Relief Macmillan 
Fund. 

MACNEICE - On February 
3rd. in Parts, suddenly. Hedll 
(nee Anderson), widow of 
Louis MacNeice. Much 
adored mother of Connna. 
stepmother of Dan and 
grandmother of khshah. A 
Memorial Service win be 
arranged later. 


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February 2 nd. peacefully 
Jeremy Hocniort. aged 42 
Devoted husuano M Caroline 
mee Snawi and Deioved 
father of Matthew and Clare. 
Funeral Service al 
Niman's. ctenurquhari. 
Inverncsshire. on Friday 
February 9th at 230 pm, 
Famuy (lowers only, 
donations may be senl to the 
Royal Marsden Hospital, 
Fulham Road. London SW7. 
A Memorial Service will be 
held at St Bamaaas. Addison 
Road. London W14. Monday 
March 12th at 6 pm. 

MAIMWENT - On Saturday 
Feoruary 3rd 199a after 
many years of suffering. 
Beatrice Joan, beloved wife 
of CttffOnd and devoted 
mother to Bruce and Julie. 
Funeral Service. St Mary's, 
wargrave. 2 pm Friday 
February 9th 1990 followed 
by pnvaie cremation. No 
flowers, but donanons If 
desired lo The Arthnus and 
Rhcumatasm Council for 
Research or CUveoen Trust, 
c/o CotUns. Dryland and 
Thorowgood South ors. 12 
Hart SlreeL Henley-on 
Thames. Oxon.. RG9 2AY. 

MAYERS - On February 4th 
1990. at Pnncess Alice 
Hospice, aged 59. Eire Ellis 
Much loved wtfe of Richard 
(formerly widow of the late 
David Adams Norris). Dear 
mother of Geraint and Kate 
and Mamgu lo Alice. James 
Sitolio. Laura. Rachel. 
Heather and Alison. Funeral 
at Christ Church. Esher, on 
Friday February 9th 1990 at 
l pm. followed by private 
cremation. Family flowers 
only, bul donations if desired 
to Pnncess Alice Hosokc. 
West End Lane. Esher. 
MERIVALE -On February 6Ui 
at Channg Cross Hospital 
peacefully in tus sleep after a 
long struggle. John H (Jactu 
aged 72. Beloved husband of 
Dinah. Funeral Service 
Putney vale Crematorium 
n am Tuesday February 
13th. Please no flowers, but 
donations to the Actors' 
Benevolent Fund. 6 Adam 
Street. WC2. 

MILLER - On February 3rd 
1990. suddenly at home. 
Major General J C iJimirue) 
Miller. M.C.. RAM.C 
(retired). Much loved 
husband of Kay and devoted 
rather of David. Funeral 
private, donanons if wished 
to the RJLM.C. Charities. 
■OBEJtLY • On February fith. 
peacefully at Moun[batten 
Nursing Home, Taunton. 
Constance Greer (n4e Fry), 
formerly of Apptecombe. 
WUd Oak Lane. Trull, wid¬ 
ow of George Mooerty and 
Claud Mrwatiers. Funeral al 
Trull Parish Church on Mon¬ 
day February 12th at 12.45 
pm. followed by cremation at 
Taunton. Family flowers 
only, but donations if desired 
for The Leonard Cheshire 
Foundation, c/o Leonard E. 
Smith Funeral Directors. 1 
Haydoo Road. Taunton. 
MMN 1 • On February 5th 
1990. at home after a tedious 
Illness. Lleuienanl Colonel 
Edward Graham (TeodyL 
15Ui/19th The King's Royal 
Hussars. Cremation at his 
own request Family only. 
No Rowers or letters please. 
A Service of Thanksgiving 
will be held later. 

ROWLEY - On February 5th. 
peacefully al his home. 
Tony, of Blackdown Cross. 
CredttML Funeral Service 
Exeter and Devon 
Crematorium on Ttuosday 
February 8ih at 11.15 am. 
Family flowers only, no 
letters or cards please. 
SEYMOUR SMTIH - On 
January 23rd 1990. Aveni 
Wynntfred (nte Greener) 
MJLC.V.& Wife of the tare 
Edward Spencer Seymour 
Smith, formerly of me 
Poplars High Sheet Henley 
an Arden. Wartsiure. 
Funeral Service Beau Desert 
Church: Henley on Arden. 
Monday February 12th at 
1130 am. followed by 
interment In churchyard, 
□onatxxa to The University 
Federation of the Animal 
Welfare, c/o Maton & Sons. 
Bwanswell Funeral Home. 
36 Raglan Street Coventry, 
telephone: (0203) 226191. 

SMITH - On February 2nd. 
peacefully In the Abbots 
Lefqti Nursing Home. Bristol. 
Lilian Clara (ntc Bence), 
aged 84. Widow of Alfred 
Jocelyn Smith. Much loved 
by her two sons John and 
CUve and daughter-in-law 
Jill. The funeral will be 
private. 

STEVENSON - On February 
SOL peacefully In Lincoln 
HospiUL Helena Beatrice 
'Bata' enfie Boidero). in her 
65th year. Mother of Peter 
and Roger Cremation Friday 
February 9th 3.30 pm. 
WDford MU. West 
Brtdgeford. Nottingham, 
followed by Church Service 
at M et h e rt ngham at 12 noon 
on Saturday February 10th. 
Flowers to Albert Ottver & 
Sons. 45 Easthorpe Street. 
Ruddbtgion. 

VAN LYNDEN - On February 
5th 199a Dfederic. retired 
Ambassador Netherlands 
Foreign Service, suddenly al 
Ms home. Lange VoortmiL 
48 The Hague. 


! - On February sih I (wo 
Alter a tong illness Mannrie 
Eleonora, ot 46 Stratneocn 
Court. Torquay Aaorea wire 
of Chn&iopner and verv 
much laved by her chilaren 
Tony and Nina and oy iwr 
four gnuidrruiaren ana three 
Brear-granaciuuren. Funeral 
pnvaie. 


WHEELER - On February 2nd 
at tne Brook General 
HosauaL Woolwich. Ronald 
Lat u aowne. aged fit 

Funeral Service wiu lake 
Mace on Monday February 
12Ui at 3.30 pm at the 
Tunbridge Wells 

Crematorium No flowers or 
letters, donations please lo 
the National Hosmta) for 
Nervous Dweascs lor Neuro 
Surgery or the Heart 

Deportment al Guys 

Hospital, c/o E R Hickman 

& Son. 41 Grove Hill Road. 
Tunbridge Wetiv Kent, id 
(0892) 22462. 


WILLS - On February 5th. 
peacefully. 'Jean Fraser 
(previously Le Fleming), very 
dearly loved wife of 
Humphrey and beloved 
mother of Jeanecu iMarurvi- 
auo stepmother, 

grandmother and great 
grandmother Private 

cremation. Thanksgiving 
Service on Monday February 
12th at St Mary's Church. 
Nartfiekl. East Sussex at 
2.30 pm. mo flowers by 
request. Donations u desired 
to St Mary's Church, c/o R. 
Medhurst Funeral Director. 
Vine House. HartfMd. 

WILSON - On February 2nd. 
after a snort Illness In 
haspttaL Oscar Frederick 
(Jack), of Queens Elm 
Parade. Chelsea. Cremation 
at Putney Vale Crematorium 
On February 13th at 3 pm 
Flowers to E.B. Ashton 6 
Co.. 96 Fulham Road. SW3. 


IN MEM OR! AM - 
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KHOURY Carol - so dearly 
toved, left us seven years 
ago A Memorial Service will 
be held al 105 pm on 
Wednesday February 7lh al 
Farm Strert Church. London 
Wi. 


PWUPP - Richardson Cramp- 
ton. Remembered with love. 
Gwyneth. Victoria. Nicholas. 
William and Tom. 

THOMAS • m loving memory 
of A vice Thomas who died 
February 7th 1986. from 
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THE INSOLVENCY RULES 1986 

RULE 6.124 (1) 

NOTICE OF APPOB4TMCNT 
OF TRUSTEE 
In the High Ooort 
No 3468 Of 1989 
bi the matter of Ammtal Damo- 
dar Mammra - In Banarupev 
Nance to hweay given tore on 
30to Novetnoer I'M 


Roaa. Chartered Ac 
countaixa. Udgra House. 280 
Ktoyrtuiy Road. Lo n don NW9 
OBS was appolated Tnatoeof toe 
above named Bin 
Dated tote soui day af 
January 1990 
tartvyh l_ tow*. FCA FOCA 


FPJ>. TYPESETTMO LTD 
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DOT- 
auant to Secfloo 98 of toe UwoL 
vmey ACL 1986 tool a Meednoof 
Crcdbure of toe above named 
CtoMW wffl oe held allheDf. 
bees of Laansrd Cun* 6 Co.. «■ 
Bated ai SO E a wh urau e Terrace. 
(2nd Finer) London W2 8LF. on 
Wednesday, toe 14» day of Fab- 
rtiary 1990 al 1200 noon for the 
provided tor in “ ' 


SS'S 


A Ml of (hr nt 


ef toe move Company's Crednoro 
can oe iksmm ai the onicta of 
Leonard Curds 6 Co_ 30 East 
bourne Terrace London W2 6LF. 
b e twee n toe hours of 10-00 asn 
and d OO am on the two matrass 
flays —wm me Meeting of 

DHSon. 

Doted tnr 3001 day of 
January 1990 
Mrs C. Were oncar 


SETH 


SONS 


JONES AND 
LMTCD 

NOTICE 18 HEREBY CBVHI PUT- 
enam to SecOosi 98 of toe bna» 
vency Art. 1986 mat a Meetup of 
Creditor* of the above named 
Company win be held M the of- 
Boa af Leonard Cnms fi Cs. «- 
waled or 30 rasrtxmr n* Tsrrace. 
(toid Floor) London W2 6LF. on 
Wednesday, the 14th day of ru> 
ruary 1990, at SJO pm ter me 
burnoses provided tor to Seaton 
98 et sea. 

A art of toe naroce and nddresoes 
of use above Oompanirti Criaanra 
can oa i ra pacisd at the oCDces al 
Leonard Curua fi Ca. 30 East- 
bourne Trerace. London W2 6LF 
between the hoars af 10.00 am 
and 4.00 pm on toe two nisiimn 
days preced to B too Meutng of 
Crediure 

Dosed Om 3m day of 
January 1990 
A.V. 



109 

of toe Insolvency Ad 1906 
1683907 



le u rtterea ofOce: 1 Rkftng House 
Bum. London wia W3 Ltane 
datore name and soaner Refer 
Gray MOte. 1 RhHno House 
StraeL London WIA 8A& Office 
hotter 00: 7948 Dale of appotol 
hirer 23 January 199a By 


P 0 Mias u gu MBSer 
Date 12.11a 


LEGAL NOTICES 


CLOOFTUM LIMITED 
Nonce is nereoy green (hrt toe 
Creditors af the oaeve named 
Company are requrad. on 01 oe- 


dmero of tocy Soaaun if any. 
to P O M»9 of Sendti fi WtUtanv 


den. wia MS. the U g uabd ar of 
toe said Oosapany. and if so re- 
eutaed oy nonce (a wrung from 


Shan be specified tn such nonce, 
or to defeat! therm mey wia be 
enctuded from Die benefit ol any 


GLASS TOUGHENING <UK> PLC 
NOTICE B HEREBY GIVEN, 
pursuant inflection 48 of the to- 
solvency Art. 1986 dial a Mart- 
lag of Cradure of tor eunw 
named company wil or neM et 
The BonauHaon Hoed to tor Mar- 
eares Room. 92 SnStanwon 
Row. London wCIB*BH.on Fri¬ 
day 23 Feoruary 1000 at 11 (XL 
A Draw n entnird to vote only 
V ne nes sent 10 mr jm Aromn- 


12430 n eon on Thursday 29Ptt>- 


tier the provisions of Die Cnaoreen- 

cy Rites <986 ana mere has acen 
lodged with the Jouh A daUMOm - 
tore Receivei 1, al Coeaera fi 
Lute-rad DrtotOm. RO Box 207. 
128 Queen victorta StroeL Lon- 

don CGaP OJX. prior lo torMeet- 
mg. bow proxy winch me Creditor 
totends to be need on Ms behalf. 
A J 


Doted: 1 February 1990 




rt a aUfknd wi. 23 Date of rttootnt- 
mom of sill 1111 eitiaunr reertv er el 
I FUbruary 1990 Name of person 



Joint . 

Wanshouse 
Bridge GUe 
86/07 »gb Street 


Btnray RH1 1RX 


JAR8TAH LIMITED 
TO WHOM rr MAY 
Nonce is hereby given 1 
1. At an Extraordinary 
M eet ing of toe above _ 
Ownpeny doty convened 


Kent on 2nd Fcbniacy 1990 a 


approving a payment out of 
crons) by the Oarepany to, tre 
purchase of rs own shares. 

2 The asa ou nl of nu iisi mmniln 
capital paymem tor tor shares 
to aucenen » £2004300. 

3. The snnKosy deettramm of 
toe db-ecsors nd tor auditors' 
report le uuh e u by section its 
of the Companies Art 1986 are 
avaliahlr tar tnspretton al Ihe 
oeoponyh regwered office al 
WeRbigton House aforesaid. 

4. Aw cradUor of toe oonumtr 
may M any tone wohin toe 
flvo iineebe nrmiiirtiBiiil, tas- 
towns too dacr of me spoc iM 


ruary 1990. aunty u (he High 
Court of Justice tor an order 
proMMttog the oaymcnL 
David K. Everoden 


1990 


Ndfei If ■ ■ ■. Si W Mrt 

of Administrative Receiver 
Medical Diagnostic* Ltmdea Reg¬ 
istered number. 2021948 Nature 
of burtncee: Medical Sendee*. 

Trade m-sivw.. DtvtelOO 8 - 

40. Date of ropommani of ad- 

■rihirti wtavr raeeivaro: 30-1-90. 
Mesne of p erson appointing me 
artntnrthaQve receivers. Naboonl 
Wcsaiunaur Bank pic. 

Anthony Raymond Houghton 
fi John Parry RicnaMa 
Office hotter not: 1602 fi 2480 


t, 

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s 

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66/87 High HUborn 
London WC1V 6DX 


TRUSTEE ACTS 


NOTICE «* Hereby pven ounwnni 
to «27 Of tne TRUSTEE ACL 1928 
that any imausi naviiig » Claim 
egam el or an INTEREST to The 
ESTATE of tow M flic de c e rne d 
person's whose names, rtiymn 
and teecnpooos ere set om below 
le hereby regutora to send par 
Oculars M wrtnng of ms claim or 
tassral to toe person or p wso n e 
■nenhaned to retenon to me <3o- 
nimf penon concerned before 
the date aoeaflefl: filler winch 
dale the cmbb of the dec eas ed 
win nr dMTOHRed by ms personal 
ruieuM■Minos among tar per¬ 


sons eiMifled memo nsvmg ro- 
gard only to toe ctaone ane in¬ 
terests of which thro hove had 
notice. 


RE: PATRM3A CAIRNCROSS 
WETKERWELL DECEASED. 

Pursuant to toe 
Trustee Art 1928. 

Nonce la hereby gtven tow rtw 
person having a ctaua against or 
an totems to the E ei ate of Patri¬ 
cia CafoMToea WctowwaU law of 
Thr OM Past Office. Farnsm, 
N urtm aohcrt a nd who dted on the 
Bto day Of Sept em ber 1089 and 
Letters of AdnurusiraDoa .so 
whose estate were wonted tty the 
MiM U T ia tle Upon Tyne District 
Prorate Registry on tn* Irin day 
fl October 1989 to QUhon Mary 
Camcrote Nichol dace NKhtaaon 
me Adr mmana p ts is nereoy re. 
tedrad u said particulars m wns- 
Ins of Ms rtann or tonrost to the 
unoentanta. me Senator tor me 


toe 9tb day of April 1990. after 


wU proceed to distribute toe as¬ 
sets of the rad Deceased a m o nyd 
me persons entitled tocreeo hav¬ 
ing regard onty to the damn and 
toteresis of wtach rtw stwB then 
nave had nonce. 

Dated Ufls SOth day of 
January 1990 
OIMon fi Oe 

27 Pi te scpoep te . Hesdian. 

Norton 


for the sMd Emcusots 


LEGAL NOTICES 


JACKSONS LIMITED 

(PROVISIONAL LIQUIDATOR APPOINTED) 
(RECEIVER AND MANAGER APPOINTED) 

(“JACKSONS”) 

NOTICE TO CLIENTS 

RE: JACKSONS’ TRUST ACCOUNT 
(RECEIVER APPOINTED) 

I was appointed Receiver of Jacksons’ Trust Account as at 
5 December 1989, by an Order made by the Supreme Court of 
New South Wales. Australia, dated 5 December 1989. 

All clients of Jacksons with monies held on their behalf in Jacksons* 
Trust Account have been circularised with a form based on Jacksons’ 
Trust Account's records. This form records the monies held in 
Jacksons' Trust Account on behalf of their client. 

If you are a client of Jacksons and you believe you are entitled to 
trust funds and have not received this form by 10 February 1990 
you should contact: 

Ms Julie Bennett Tel: (0011)1612)9646946 

Arthur Anderson a Co. Fax: (0011)1612)922 2069 
141 Walker Street, 

North Sydney NSW 
AUSTRALIA 2060 

In accordance with the Orders made by the Court. I am required to 
obtain written confirmation from ail clients of Jacksons as to monies 
held on their behalf in Jacksons' Trust Account If the holdings do not 
reconcile with those shown in the records of Jacksons, I am required 
to obtain from the client details of the adjustments required to these 
records, together with supporting documentation. The form must 
be completed and returned to me by 27 March 1990. 

UNLESS YOU COMPLETE AND RETURN THE FORM 
(WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED AS SET OUT ABOVE) BY 
27 MARCH 1990 YOU MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM ANY 
DISTRIBUTION OF MONIES. 

it is recommended thatyou forward 
your claim by way of registered mail. 


JOHN W. MURPHY 
Racatvwr 


.AKIIR'R 
Andersen 
-vi. < v 


JACKSONS LIMITED 

(PROVISIONAL LIQUIDATOR APPOINTED) 
(RECEIVER AND MANAGER APPOINTED) 

(“JACKSONS”) 

NOTICE TO CLIENTS 

RE STREET NOMINEES PTY LIMITED 
(RECEIVER APPOINTED) 

(“STREET NOMINEES”) 

I was appointed Receiver of the trust assets of Street Nominees 
held on or received after 30 November 1989, by an Order made by 
the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, dated 
30 November 1989. 

Ail ctienls of Jacksons with securities hefd on their behaff by Street 
Nominees have been circularised with a form based on Street 
Nominees' records. This form records the securities and/or monies 
held by Street Nominees on behalf of the client 

If you believe you are a client of Street Nominees and have not 
received this form by 10 February 1990 you should contact 

Ms Julie Bennett Tel: (0011) (612) 964 6946 

Arthur Andersen & Co. Fax: (0011) (612) 922 2065 
141 Walker Street, 

North Sydney NSW 
AUSTRALIA2060 

In accordance with the Orders made by the Court, I am required to 
obtain written confirmation from all clients of Street Nominees as to 
their holdings in Street Nominees. If the holdings do not reconcile 
with those shown in the records of Street Nominees, I am required 
to obtain from the client, details of the adjustments required to these 
records, together with supporting documentation. The form must 
be completed and returned to me by 27 March 1990. 

UNLESS YOU COMPLETE AND RETURN THE FORM 
(WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED AS SET OUT ABOVE) BY 
27 MARCH 1990 YOU MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM ANY 
DISTRIBUTION OF SECURITIES AND/OR MONIES. 

it is recommended that you forward 
your claim by way of registered mail. 


JOHN W. MURPHY 
Receiver 


Arthur 

Andersen 


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• SOME REVIEWS WAV B£ REPRINTED 

FROM YESTEROArs LATER EDITIONS 


THE ARTS 


Unhappy ^™ stea ^ Maupin, creator of the newly-completed sequence of novels Tales of the City, talks to Jasper Rees Something 

on£5a Stories on the never-never »>*!? 


irei4\nsioNf 

Sheridan Morley 

Something veiy cmioes is happen¬ 
ing to American television docu¬ 
mentaries. They are bow so glossy, 
and die participants so determined 

m gjrre Emmy-w inning perfor¬ 
mances, that they are becoming 
indistinguishable from such mid- 
life dramas as thirtysomethiag. 

Last night’s Joint Custody 
(Channel 4) woald have made a 
perfect episode in one of the new, 
caring familial series. It followed 
three divorced couples who have 
decided that fin themselves, and 
possibly even their children, it 
makes more sense to divide 
responsibilities evenly, rather than 
one parent having prime charge 
and only shunting the kids off to 
the other for alternate weekends. 

There is, as one father noted, a 
limit to the number of times yon 
can take offspring to Disneyland. 
Better to have them for a week at a 
time, even if the logistics of school 
and career become far move 
complicated. 

It wonld be uncharitable to 
suggest that if yon were a child of 
these particular parents you might 
anyway wish to opt for che nearest 
orphanage, although whal sort of 
effect a totally split two-home 
childhood will have on them in 
later life could not be explored, the 
hies itself haring only been around 
for half an bom or so. 

“Caring Parenting" sounds like 
something out of a parody of 
American domestic life, and I 
especially enjoyed the father try¬ 
ing to convince a recalcitrant 
daughter that she was going to 
hare “special time" with her 
babysitter. There is something 
bleakly funny about people iedd- 
ing that whatever they are doing at 
the time is better for the kids. Ail 
that can be said for the new 
system, thus far, is that it appears 
to be producing children already 
auditioning for minor roles in a 
Woody Allen morie about parental 
gnifi and anxiety. 

Earlier, the feminist series Or¬ 
dinary People (also on Channel 4) 
had some chilling statistics. Eight 
oof of 2.010 painring* in the 
National Gallery are by women: 
while of 435 plays produced by the 
National Theatre, only 10 had 
female authors. There were al.«o 
some angry Interviews with writers 
such as Jill Hyem trying tv »nrk 
for male producers who are con¬ 
vinced they know more than -hr 
does about how women beh* • 
without men. But the series i> 
looking like radio witb pi. - 

rather than a television pn«}. 

Yorkshire's Fim Tuesda} ruu.« 
an award-winning sixth year with , 
Disaster at Hillsborough, an im j 
Densely careful study of tht* 
country's worst-ever football 
disaster. It was unlucky for them 
that both World In Action and 
BBC 2's Public Eye jumped lin¬ 
gua last week with instant re 
actions to the Taylor report, but 
this one had been almost a year in 
the making, and is likely to prove 
definitive. 

Finally. Looking After »umber 
One (BBC 2) was a very impres¬ 
sive screenplay first, not only for • 
the writer. Ben RostnL hot also for 
the director. Simon Celinn Juoev 
who brought a Mkninute drama in 
for less than £10,000. 


A nnistead Maupin is a curiosity. 
Only one in umpteen of bis 
thousands of readers can cor¬ 
rectly pronounce his name. 
Asked to put the ignorant on to 
the right phonetic path, he enunciates the 
word “Mawpin" witb a subdued South 
Carolina drawl 

But he is a curiosity for another reason. 
The Tales of the City novel sequence, which 
began in 1976, and concludes with Sure of 
You, published in Britain this week, has 
revived the art of creating a plot in 
instalments. u Td love to say that it was 
entirely intentional," he says, “but I think h 
was as big a surprise to me as It was to the 
readers.” 

The stories started as a daily series of 
episodic sketches in the Son Francisco 
Chronicle, which used fictional characters to 
examine the topical quirks of San Francis¬ 
can life, especially gay life This they did 
very well “bui as I began to run out of 
materia] - it's an interesting town but not 
that interesting - 1 bad to find ways in 
which the characters could interact. The 
plot [which, like its successors, is fet with 
cheekily choreographed coincidences] 
bloomed out of that.” 

The single thread which connects the five 
main characters is that they live under the 
same roof on a hill overlooking the city. 
Sexually they have nothing in common. 
Earnest Mary Ann and lovable Michael 
prefer men; macho Brian and aggressive 
Mona prefer women; and, for reasons which 
emerge in More Tales, their landlady Mrs 
Madrigal fits in somewhere between the 
four of them. 

“What I had missed in fiction up to that 
point was something that would validate the 
life of a gay person,” says their creator. "The 
great irony was that the senior columnist at 
the Chronicle was a homophobic old 
Irishman who had affection for me but no 
patience whatsoever for my homosexuality. 

"1 was supposed to submit six weeks* 
worth of columns to the newspaper before 
they would accept, so I deliberately waited 
until the senes had gained a foothold before 
introducing the gay and lesbian characters. 
As it happened, when Michael was threat¬ 
ened witb a fatal illness, people responded 
as if be were one of their own children.” 

For several years, Maupin’s addicted 
readership remained strictly regional. 
“Because they were published in paperback, 
they were from California, 1 was out of the 
closet and some of the characters were gay, 
the Tales had ‘cult’ written all over them as 
far as the New York es tablishm ent was 
concerned." 

So the news about Maupin spread by 



friends,” says Maupin. “Without wanting to 
interpret bis work for him, I think it has a tot 
to do with him having lost so many friends 
to Aids recently.” , . 

Michael's illness in More Tales is not 
Aids, but as the second half of the sequence 
moves into the 1980s, the virus casts an 
increasingly lengthy shadow. By the begin¬ 
ning of Sure of You, Michael has Iren 
diagnosed HIV-positive; there is a scene in 
which he covers a lesion on his fog and waits 
to find out from a doctor if it is whal he 
thinks it is. 

“I hesitated about including that episode 
in the novel"Maupin explains, “because I 
thought people might accuse me of being 
unnecessarily melodramatic, but it hap¬ 
pened to my lover and 1 wanted to show 
people exactly what that meant." 

Sure of You could not help being darker 
than its forerunners. In Further Tales there 
is a loving portrait whom Maupin freely 
admits is Rock Hudson (“strictly auto¬ 
biographical,” he says). In Sure of You there 
is a much less flattering portrait of a 
designer whose international success de¬ 
pends upon his staying la the closet 

Tales of the City begins with Mary Ann 
arriving in San Francisco for a holiday and 
deciding to stay. Sure of You deals with her 
departure, and the emotional ructions it 
causes. 


M aupin announces that he is 
“ready to talk in other voices. 

I have lived with these folks 
for 15 years, and 1 felt it was 
time to try something dif¬ 
ferent” He has written some of the script for 
a musical currently in rehearsal pending an 
opening on Broadway in the aut umn. “It’s 
very exciting to bear actors reading my 
dialogue,” be says. 

It is only the problem of finance which 
has prevented the rapier-sharp dialogue of 
Tales of the City from finding its way on to 
tdevision.“Americans are running stared of 
even the tamest material about gay and 
lesbian life," he says. This is a shame, 
because Maupin’s people are not mere 
sexual stereotypes going about their carnal 
business. 

“An English reporter criticized me for not 
having sex scenes in the books,” he : 
concludes. “I told him that that's the 
problem with the British: if you did it a little 
more often you wouldn't have to read about 
it” As messages to the nation go, it is 
certainly different Much like the man, and 

his tales 

• Sure of You is published by Chatto <5 
Windus this week at £12.95 


Annistead Maupin: “Tm ready to talk in at 

word of mouth. “It makes me very happy to 
know that, because it is much easier to be 
secure in that kind of feme than one which is 
bestowed on you overnight by a literary 
establishment You are painfully aware that 
they could take it away at any moment" 
Though Christopher Isherwood en¬ 
couraged him early on, Maupin says he 
prefers the company of actors to that of 
writers. “And painters — especially this 


m makes” after 15 years of these characters 

one”, he says, indicating the studio in which 
the interview is being conducted. It is the 
Kensington base of David Hockney. 
Maupin is borrowing it for the week while 
be promotes Sure of You, the sixth and last 
of the Tales of the City sequence. 

It is Hockney's portrait of Maupin which 
adorns the cover of Chatto's omnibus 
edition of the first three Tales. “He is doing 
a whole series of portraits like that of his 


John Percival 

Karin Vyncke 
ICA 

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This dancer from Brussels, new to 
London I believe, is at the ICA 
until Saturday to open a four-week 
season by women choreographers. 

While the audience waits, we 
bear a recording of “Mon coeur 
souflre A ta voix” from Saint- 
Sadns’s Samson el Dalila. But 
when we set eyes on Vyncke, she 
seems no Delilah: if her heart has 
softly awakened, it seems to have 
been Shattered again by a man 
who stands watching her hesitate 
across the forestage, tremulously 
spilling the water she tries to carry 
in a bowL 

Behind her is a cage of wire 
netting, and she spends the rest of 
the performance trapped ins i de, 
but not before a group of men 
have scattered stiff white feathers 
ail over the floor and thrown dea£). 
birds around. Here she meets her 
other sel£ played by Laura 
Girotto, who smiles brightly while 
Vyncke cannot hide her frowns. 
But both of them struggle equally 
in an environment that seems 
constantly to trip them up. 

At the end, Vyncke succumbs ' 
and lies buried under the dead 
birds, but Girotto takes new heart, 
nourishes herself greedily on milk 
and an apple, and is last seen 
climbing out of the trap while a 
breeze begins to dear the floor of 
its. feathery debris (to which the 
women have substantially added 
as they went along). 

I would not pretend to interpret 
every clue and symbol offered in 
the course of this action, but the 
general purport seems dear 
enough, and it is illuminated by 
the performances of the two 
women. Vyncke calls the piec^r 
Sous les v&emenis Nonas, and 
whatever she meant that to con¬ 
vey, to me it is dear that under 
these white skirts and loose tops 
are two highly purposeful and 
resilient people, making use of 
considerable physical and 
courage to say something about an 
attitude to life 


Alasdair Cameron 

Tally’s Blood 
Traverse, Edinburgh 

•Janr di Mambro's Tally’s 
. is .mpossible to dislike. 
- •; ii. generous, written from the 
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certainly noi the kind of play we 
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Lucia, played by the excellent 
Blythe Duff, has been brought up 
by Auni Roandla and Unde 
Massimo m a chip shop. Tally's 
las in ’talians). somewhere in 
Scotland, anywhere m Scotland to 
judge from the variety of accents. 
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love her. When she is sem back to 
her real father in Italy, he follows; 
and when he is forbidden to marry 
her, they elope and spend the mghi 
together up a tree. This is the 
custom of the country, which 
ensures they will be married. 

The first half is much the more 
sombre and is almost a play in 
itself The family comes to terms 
with abortion, death, the hostility 
of their neighbours and an intern¬ 
ment. Act n, however, verges 
perilously on sitcom, as Scottish 
Tallies meet the real (Italian) thing 
with attendam language jokes and 
no sense of real danger. 

Tally’s Blood is an Italo-Scoi- 
tish version of The Steamie. It is 
given an immaculate production 
by lan Brown, an effective all¬ 
purpose cafe setting by lan Mac- 
Neil and evocative music by 
Richard Sisson. Anne Downie’s 
performance, as Aunt Rosi Delia, is 
so good that it threatens to 
overwhelm the play. Accent, emo¬ 
tional power, brooding stage pres¬ 
ence: Downie has them aU and she 
relishes every moment It is a pity 
that the end seems such a cop-out 

Tally’s Blood is going out on an 
extensive lour. Bui compared with 
Marcella Evaristi’s Commedia, a 
much harsher look at the stultify¬ 
ing nature of Scottisb-Italian fam¬ 
ilies and the overwhelming 
pressures 10 conform, the play is a 
trifle - or zuppa Inglese. 


The unadorned truth 


y„ -THEATRE-, v. 
Benedict Nightingale 

Side Pockets 
Stratford East 


Something actually happens in the 
last moments of Side Packets: and 
since it belongs to sporting history, 
I feel free to reveal ft here. Over 
the radio comes news that Joe 
Louis has conquered Max Schme- 
ling in round one (ft their rematch, 
confirming himself as world 
heavyweight champion. 

There is the feint sound -of 
hooting and hurrahing in the 
streets ootside the Harlem saloon 
where Aaron Iverson's play is set; 
hot inside its murky walls the 
barman simply switches off the 
fights, bringing his c u st omers’ and 
oar evening to an end. 

So anti-dimactk a climax needs 
explanation, especially as ft has 
been preceded by remarks like 
“sure goto' to be a good fight 
tonight” and “Joe lose? Ain’t no 
way”. Is Iverson, a Chicago lawyer 
and hitherto an unperformed 
dramatist, showing his inexperi¬ 
ence? Or is this his cryptic way of 
suggesting that Louis’s historic 


victory was also on historic, since it 
made little difference to the every¬ 
day lives of everyday Macks 
precariously surviving in the 
everyday ghetto? 

Both, maybe. Iverson is an 
observant writer with a knack for 
replicating the desultory chatter of 
people with nothing much to do. 
But he has yet to learn the 
paradoxical art — exemplified, if 
you want a sporting comparison, 
by David Storey's Changing 
Room — of making the downbeat 
powerful and che sterile pregnant 
Here, he has not created tension 
enough to sustain a pair of 
trousers, let alone a whole play. 

Part of the problem may be Burt 
Caesar's production; but its non¬ 
chalance seems in keeping with 
the text Sylvester Williams brings 
a gauche charm to the role of Ray, 
*fe« hopelessly yearns to be a 
boxing or base balling star, and 
Stephen Persaud a callow swagger 
to his friend Stan, an aspiring spiv. 
Yod can believe in Calvin Simp¬ 
son's grudging, penny-pinching 
barman, too: caring is more 
difficult. 

It is the same with their 
conversation, which casually 
ranges from chance to cock¬ 
roaches. from fishing to that 
faraway white man. Hitler. Poli- 



SaJoon boys: Robbie Gee (left) and Sylvester Williams in Side Pockets 
tics, racialism and even mete- subjects. The sad moral may be 


physics are dimly perceived from 
an ant’s-eye-view; hot, authentic 
though that may be, the effect is 
not to illumine those or any other 








that drama is a rather cruder 
medium than Iverson yet realizes. 
Truth is rarely enough: energy is 
necessary, too. 


~ m 


Sisters on a virtuosic scramble 


The piano-tuner was still at work 
when the audience were sum¬ 
moned back for the second part of 
Monday night’s programme by the 
Labdque sisters Katia and 
Marielle. Not surprising, after the 
pounding both pianos look before 
the interval. The musically 
perspicacious (as well as photo¬ 
genic) pair had just played the 
three movements from Petrushka 
that Stravinsky first arranged for 
one piano, and then Victor Babin 
put into two-piano form. 

Stripped of orchestral colour, 
the music concentrates the mind 
ou elements of intricate rhythm 
and sometimes polytonal har¬ 
mony. and although the young 
players look the opening “Russian 
Dance” at a pretty fast scramble, 
the percussive character of their 
keyboard attack suited the pic- 
I tonal ^qualities of “Petrushka’s 
Room” and the frosty glitter of the 
“Shrovetide Fair”. The harmonic 
colour that emerged was more a 
matter of random accord »han 

It is not necessarily a good thing 
that members oS the same family 
should form themselves into pro¬ 
fessional groups. The father and 
ftvo sons of the distinguished 
Benda family, descended from the 
dynasty of i8th-ceatnry Czech 
composers hot now Austrian do¬ 
zens. prove rhnt point. 

They are all obviously highly 
accomplished musicians, yet 
because they have such a loi in 
common, and because they know 
each other so well they are out 
able to react with — or against - 
each ocher in any dynamic way. 
Or so seemed h In this recital 
which began afro with an trident 
problem In handling the style or 
these 1 ptaytn’ most distinguished 


RECITALS 
Noel Goodwin 

Labeqne Sisters 
Festival Hall 

calculated balance, but the exu¬ 
berant virtuosity never slackened. 

Before this, they began an 
uncommonly short programme 
(less than an hour of music all 
told, before the encores) in even 
closer partnership. w ‘ih four 
hands at one piano. This crowded 
.the top. bottom and middle of the 
keyboard with sometimes charm¬ 
ing detail in Ravel's Ma Mere 
TOve. which he wrote first as a 
children's dueL There was a child¬ 
like simplicity here, touching in 
the fairy-tale images: a Sleeping 
Beauty wistful and chattering by 
puns, a wondering Laideronette, 
and a magical Fairy Garden. 

Irwin KostaTs arrangement of 

Stephen Pettitl 

Benda Musicians 
Wigmore Hall 

foretear, Fruntiseb Benda. 

A pleasant Cello Sonata in A 
major - given by Christian with 
his father. Sebastian, making a 
WHw«tui quiet contribution si the 
piano - was smooth and seamless, 
rich in sound but undifferentiated 
in character. Likewise moch of (he 
humour in Beethoven's Clarinet 
Trio. Op 11, for which the pair 
were Joined by Francois, the other 
sob, was far too polite, refined to 
the point whore h was all but lost. 


dances and songs from West Side 
Story is a recent addition 10 their 
repertoire, sanctioned by Leonard 
Bernstein so long as the percus¬ 
sion was not neglected So the 
pianists were joined by Jean- 
Pierre Drouci on timpani, 
metallophones and the like, and 
Trilok Gunu, who is ihe first 
drummer I have encountered to 
attack a jazz kit while crouched on 
one knee, the better also to finger 
Lhe Indian tablas. 

Such a percussive array bal¬ 
anced the two pianos at times, but 
they dispatched the fester and 
more rhythmic numbers with 
elan, relished the “Blues” and the 
quiet "Cha-Cha", endowed the 
“Rumble” with suitably descrip¬ 
tive crtects, and allowed "Some¬ 
where" to become hombly 
maudlin. 

U added up to a 25-minute 
cabarei. but was still flexible 
enough in content to supply 
another couple of numbers lor 
encores. 

Even in Brahms's Clarinet Trio. 
Op 114. which one would have 
thought tetter suited their smooth 
approach, they were ungratefully 
leaden in the Andantino graaoso 
and coloarless in the lovely- Ada¬ 
gio. It was a relief to hear them in 
music by Schoenberg. Berg and 
Wcbern. 

These composers leave less to 
chance, deaumdiug utter concen¬ 
tration on expression. Sebastian 
gave Schoenberg's St\ Little 
Pieces. Op 19. a whole new range 
of colours, white Christian’s per¬ 
formance with his father of Web¬ 
ern's Three Little Pieces. Op 11. 
was beautifully poised: Francois 
relished (he more fulsome qual¬ 
ities of Berg's Four Pieces, Op S. 



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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


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WEDNESDAY PAGE 


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problem for American parents 



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Britain has Butlins 
and boarding schools 
that summer camps 
fcr children have 
" ,v never quite taken off here. But 
• v * ' in the United States, plenty of 
middkHdass parents are pre- 
pared to pay from S500 (£297) 
■v uweek for their children to be 
— takenoff their hands. 
u^> ■ And when those children 
have readied the uncomfort- 
ably large proportions of an 
' estimated 30 to 40 per cent of 
American children, it is easier 
- to send-them to a “fet camp” 
— 1 tfaanto try to get to the root of 
the problem at home. 

“Welcome to Fat Camp” 
tonight’s Q.EJD. programme 
on BBC I, goes behind the 
*■*-; • 12ft-high perimeter fences 
.v around Camp Shane in the 
*» Catskill Mountains of upstate 
-* New York, where snimm-r 
' * camps duster as thickly as the 
V inmates' pimples. The docu- 
”*■ mentary calls the camp “a 
in. unique concept”, although 
there are scores of “fat camps” 
“T on the east coast of America, 
um ' and probably hundreds more 
■ " ‘ scattered across the country. 
’*’• - While some camps are run 
iu ' by the big slimming organiza¬ 
tions, Camp Shane is an 
independent, family-owned 
camp commanded by a thm, 
moustachioed man .called 
David Ettenberg. It could be 
called Camp Shame, for some 
of its campers refused to be 
induded in the film for fear it 
would be shown on American 
television. 

A few - such as Marissa, an 
attractive 15-year-old cheer¬ 
leader with only about 121b to 
lose—begged to be allowed to 
attend (“1 don’t want to be 
looked at as not fat, I want to: 
be looked at as thin,” she says 
tangmgfyX Bur-others, even if- 
they admit “I Was ready tired 
of being Eke this”, have been, 
forced to go by parents who 
have either foiled, or cannot 
be bothered, to do anything 
about their children's obesity. 

The children regard the 
camp as imprisonment, and 
much about the way it is run 
seems to reinforce that im- 


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pression. “To me, it’s the 
Parents’ foult,” says the slim 
nutritionist disapprovingly, 
and there is the unpleasant 
sense that blame is appor¬ 
tioned with the meagre meals. 

“The diet takes no account 
of age, sex or size," the 
programme comments, and is 
limited to 1,700 calories a day,, 
“about half the recommended 
intake for a growing child”. 

Youngsters who have never 
had more exercise flmn press¬ 
ing the buttons on the tele¬ 
vision remote control are 
suddenly made to participate 
in punishing routines to mor¬ 
tify the flesh. They look 
sweaty and miserable, the 
camera cruelly focusing on 
wobbly bellies and elephan¬ 
tine thighs. “Up... Down... 
Spread ’em!” shouts the 
instructor with drill-sergeant 
sadism. (The children have to 
pass a medical examination 
before they are enrolled.) But 
the camp claims its greatest 
strength is that it has “created 
an environment where these 
kids feel normal” — where 
they don't have to be afraid to 
be seen in a swimming cos¬ 
tume, and where they can 
even explore relationships 
with the opposite sex without 
fear of ridicule or refection 
because of their size. It caters 
for boys and girls aged from 
seven to 16, with a special 
“young adult programme” for 
young women aged 17-25. 

S cott, who wants to be 
an astronaut, weighs 
2171b - already 321b 
over the maximum 
weight allowed for 
fully-grown male astronauts, 
he acknowledges glumly. 
Nevertheless, he is furious 
that his parents have sent him 
here instead of giving him the 
support .be. needs at. home. 
“Big fot smile,” demands the 
woman taking the prison-style 
photographs- which marie his 
progress. 

A resident psychologist of¬ 
fers sympathetic counselling, 
and a shoulder to blubber on, 
but as the programme’s pro¬ 
ducer, Barbara May, asks: 



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Young star in the flesh: summer inmate MBte Rein, who hist 541b in nine weeks at Camp Shane 


“How much can one woman 
do for 300 kids? How can she 
possibly break down those 
defences in so little time — 
when the first problem she has 
to deal with is homesickness, 
which is common to kids in all 
camps?" 

One of toe most moving 
scenes is of Scott sobbing in 
the telephone box: “Mom, I*d 
like to know if I can come 
home. Did you get my tetter I 
sent? I wrote six!” His father 


takes pity on him, but the 
camp, its commandant ex¬ 
plains, is “reluctant to let 
people leave early because it 
undermines morale”. He as¬ 
serts that Scott “created his 
own failure”. 

May was moved to make 
the documentary because of 
her worries about the health of 
children today both in her 
native America and in Britain, 
where she has lived and 
worked for the past 12 years. 


She has a son aged nine and a 
daughter aged seven, and she 
was “tired of being the only 
mother in the car pool who 
didn’t give the kids a choc¬ 
olate bar or crisps as soon as 
they got into the car”. 

She was also horrified to 
team that the average Ameri¬ 
can child who watched four 
hours of television a day 
would have seen 20,000 food 
commercials by the time he 
bad turned 18, frightened to 


discover that children of her 
son's age had furred-up arter¬ 
ies, and concerned at die way 
“affluence, laziness, divorce 
and working parents” were, as 
she saw it, conspiring to 
produce a generation of un¬ 
healthy couch potatoes. 

“Do you know that only one 
state in America has obliga¬ 
tory physical education in 
schools now?" she demands. 
(The state is Illinois.) “In 
many ways the camps have to 
have the discipline they do 
because of the complete lack 
of discipline these kids have at 
home. They have to be pushed 
into sport And they must 
etyoy it, because SO per cent of 
them come back again.” 

Once only the comfortably- 
off would send their offspring 
to “fot camp”, but now 
“problem kids” are being sem 
by councils as part of“traming 
to team to deal with society in 
a more positive way by first 
learning to deal with their 
bodies”. May says. 

“My parents 
wanted me to 
come because 
they thought I 
couldn't take 
it any more, and I couldn't,” 
weeps Josiah, a would-be ac¬ 
tor who already has an agent 
at the age of 14. “And my 
agent wanted me to 
come ...” At the end of the 
summer he has lost 341b. But 
he has found some self-es¬ 
teem, which May feds to be 
much more important He has 
since landed a pan in a 
television scries- 

M ay has kept in 
touch with some 
of the children 
whose progress 
she monitored, 
to see whether, once they were 
out of the artificially con¬ 
trolled environment, they 
would slip back into the bad 
old habits. Surprisingly, Jo¬ 
siah (who was truly enor¬ 
mous) continued to lose 
weight and gain confidence 
after the camp, while the 
glamorous Marissa - who got 
to within a few pounds of her 
desperately desired goal - had 
put back 61b within six 
months. 

The camps have noted that 
more children are checking in 
who have only KOIb or 151b to 
lose instead of huge amounts 
of weight, as the obsession 
with having a perfect figure 
becomes more intense. But for 
the grossly overweight ones, 
like Josiah, May says the 
desire is simply to be normal. 
“And some of them had had 
weight problems all their lives: 

I spoke to the mother of one 
nine-year-okl and he’d been to 
the Rochester Nutrition Unit 
since he was three!” When 
gills aged six to eight are asked 
if they have been on a diet 
before, it is somehow tragic 
that all but two are shown 
raising their hands. 

• Q.EJD.: Welcome to Eat 
Camp is on BBCi at 9.30pm 
tonight. 


FIRST PERSON 


Lessons for 
a good life 


^ Children spend from a 
M third to a half of their 
waiting lives in school 
Yet there is a lack of 
certainty about what 
we expect schools to teach - 
apart, that is. from facts 

Do we want character, mor¬ 
als and social sense to be pan 
of the core curriculum? Or 
should these be left entirely to 
parents? Isa school a personal, 
pastoral place or an efficient 
information filling-station? It 
would be no bad idea if we 
could, collectively, make up 
our minds, because tensions 
are brewing. 

Recently, for instance, we 
heard that Newmarket Upper 
School in Suffolk was aban¬ 
doning a much-admired new 
timetable in which an unusual 
emphasis was placed on 
“guidance”, life skills and 
citizenship. 

After a curricu¬ 
lum squeeze 
and complaints 
from some 
teachers that 
they were not 
trained to act as 
counsellors, the 
school's pupils 
are now back 
on a more con¬ 
ventional diet 
of lessons and 
assemblies Also, Cardinal Ba¬ 
sil Hume, the Archbishop of 
Westminster, has attacked the 
national curriculum's empha¬ 
sis on specific skills: this 
mechanistic approach, he 
said, “can deaden creativity, 
neglect human and effective 
growth and lead to emotional 
and spiritual deprivation”. 

Those who rage at “indoc¬ 
trination” by teachers and 
point to the private sector as 
an example of “old-fashioned 
schooling in the three Rs” 
might do weft to reflect that 
our public schools are not long 
sprung out of the Rugby where 
Dr Arnold droned morality 
for long, compulsory hours in 
chapel, and that the spirit of 
character-forming still per¬ 
vades most independent 
prospectuses. 

Despite the reverence for 
“qualifications”, one suspects 
that parents in the state sector 
do not flock to schools entirely 
for the exam results. We want 
more: what the jargon calls 
PSME — personal, soda] and 
moral education. 

But PSME is at a cross¬ 
roads: first, because of the 
publicity given to scare stories 
about teachers allegedly pro¬ 
moting socialism, homosex¬ 
uality and so on in schooltime; 


‘Parents do 
not flock to 
schools 
just for 
exam results' 


and second, because the per¬ 
fectly wholesome and un¬ 
exceptionable “moral” tea¬ 
ching sessions held in most 
schools are being violently 
squeezed by the national 
curriculum. 

ProfessoT Ted Wragg of the 
School of Education at Exeter 
University, is worried. “A lot 
of schools which were trying 
to develop the whole child 
now find it more difficult: the 
national curriculum has 
knocked up a total of 54 
attainment targets so for, with 
four subjects roll to come. So 
it gets difficult for a teacher 
juggling time.” 

Tony Leach, headmaster of 
Thomas Mills comprehensive 
in Suffolk, agrees about the 
squeeze. “We manage to en¬ 
gineer enough space, because I 
rale the personal and moral 
side very highly 
and prefer it to 
have sessions to 
itself.” He re¬ 
fuses to hire 
staff who do not 
explicitly ac¬ 
cept that their 
role has a 
broader, tutor¬ 
ial dimension. 
“There are 
good teachers 
around who see 
themselves as subject-teachers 
only I won’t accept that.” He 
runs a popular, highly rated 
school but in a teacher short-, 
age, not all heads can afford to 
be so fussy 

There is, of course, always 
the true progressive approach. 
A. & Neill founded Summer- 
hill school, in Suffolk, on 
principles of total freedom, no 
rules or compulsory lessons, 
and Zoe Redhead, his daugh¬ 
ter, affirms them stiff 

With 65 pupils from all over 
the free-thinking world, she 
sums up the Summer hill 
PSME - or lack of it “We are 
anti-morals When someone 
dug op Neill's potatoes he 
made an almighty fuss, but 
insisted it was only because 
they were his potatoes and had 
taken time to plant. 

“An ordinary schoolmaster 
would have made a moral 
point of it But we see things in 
practical terms - you can't 
live with other people and 
damage their things We don’t 
set out to make you a 
better person.” Sum* 
merhil) parents know 
exactly what they are 
getting But do the rest 
of us? 

Libby Pnrves 


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1 gifts 

Valentine gift-givers can go 
some way towards helping 
hearts through the British 
Heart Foundation's appeal if 
they buy their loving tokens 
from the Chn Can company, 
which sells cans of Laurent- 
Perrier champagne or cho¬ 
colates for £16.95, or Just Bal¬ 
loons, which sends heliuin¬ 
filled, heart-shaped balloons 
with a choice of greetings. 
E ari* company has promised 
to donate “a generous percent¬ 
age” of profits to the BHF if 
customers mention the foun¬ 
dation when placing their 
order. Contact the Can Can 
company at 22 Charterhouse 
Works, Eltiingham Street, 
London SW18 1TD (01-877 
1233), and Just Balloons at 82 
Shaftesbury Avenue, London 
W1 (01-434 3039). Or you 
might prefer to make your 
donation direct to the BHF at 
102 Gloucester Place, London 
W1H 4DR 

Spell check 

A press release from the 
Dyslexia Institute reads as if it 
has been produced by victims, 
since it refers to contributions 
by such sufferers as Edwina 
Curry to one of two new books 
it has published. Error aside, 
Currie’s joke is one of many 
rib-ticklers in the Xceedingly 
Funny Joke Book. The other 
book is a collection of essays, 
poems, paintings and photo¬ 
graphs from dyslexic adults 
j and child ren called As l See It. 



A round-up of news, 
views and nformation 


Both are published by Walker 
Books at £2.50, with royalties 
going to the institute's Bursary 
Fund, which finances teaching 
and assessment. 


Quote me — 



“We read the dictionary. It's 
always by our bed. On ms side 
is an English one, a Collins, 
and on my side an American, 
Random House.” 

Marianne Wiggins, wife of 
Salmon Rushdie 


Death calling 

A National Telephone Be¬ 
reavement Advisory Service 
has just been launched by the 
funeral directors PRG Hodg¬ 
son Kenyon International Sir 
Harry Secombe supplies the 
voice of the information 


service, which was compiled 
in consultation with solicitors, 
funeral directors, the DHSS 
and Cruse — Bereavement 
Care, a national organization 
that offers practical and emo¬ 
tional support Topics such as 
“Making a will” and “Plan¬ 
ning your immediate money 
matters on death” are inter¬ 
spersed with “Coping with 
bereavement” and “Arranging 
a funeral”. Calls are charged at 
the normal British Telecom 
rates for such services, 38p a 
minute during peak time and 
25p off-peak, with “a percent¬ 
age of the income” from each 
call going to Help the Aged. A 
free leaflet with further details 
is available from PFG Hodg¬ 
son Kenyon Bereavement 
Support Service, The Oak- 
lands, 2 Holyhead Road, 
Handsworth, Birmingham 
B21 0LT, or from the compa¬ 
ny’s 400 branches and selected 
libraries. 

Mask master 

Put some drama into the 
children’s half-term holiday 
by making traditional Chinese 
opera masks. A special work¬ 
shop, which most be booked 
in advance, will be held for the 

children of Times readers on 
Saturday, February 24, from 
10am to 12 noon at the 
Museum Store, 37 The Piazza, 
Covent Garden, London 
WC2E 8RF (01-240 5760). 
The free workshop will take 
place under the direction of 
Yap Hi Ghu, a Chinese mask- 
making expat, and aD materi¬ 
als wiD be provided. To book a 
place either write or tele¬ 
phone, mentioning or enclos¬ 
ing this cutting. 


Garden paths 

Nearly 3,000 gardens which 
can be visited and enjoyed are 
listed in Gardens of England 
and Wales Open in 1990, to be 
published tomorrow. All are 
members of the National Gar¬ 
dens Scheme, which ensures 
that money paid for entrance 
will go to a good cause. Copies 
can be obtained for £2.25 (inc. 
p&p) direct from the National 
Gardens Scheme, HatdUands 
Park, East Oandon, Guild¬ 
ford, Surrey GU4 7RT (0483 
211535), or from bookshops 
in about two weeks’ time for 
£1.50. 

Fathers’ days 

In the vast majority of di¬ 
vorces the mother gets the 
children and the father nan 

fed shut out Sunday’s Every¬ 
man programme (BBC1, 
1030pm) focuses on the prob¬ 
lems of the non-enstodial 
parent who is often unaware 
of bis rights. A special helpline 
wfl] be in operation for two 
hours after the programme 
and on Monday, manned by 
Families Need Fathers, a vol¬ 
untary organization which has 
been fighting for a fairer deal 
for fathers after divorce. 
Trevor Berry, chairman of 
FNF, says: “People are very 
green about the law, and 
getting advice from lawyers is 
often expensive. We will put 
them in touch with our mem¬ 
bers in different areas to offer 
emotional support and prac¬ 
tical advice.” The helpline 
number is 01-886 0970. 

Victoria McKee 


Say it 
with 
bubbly 


St Valentine’s Day is only a 
week away and romance is in 
the air. You may already have 
made arrangements to send a 
message to a loved one 
through the columns of this 
newspaper. If not, there is still 
time to make a special gesture. 
In The Times on Saturday, 
Nicole Swengley suggests in- 


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accompaniment for celebra¬ 
tions, the most romantic of 
wines, and there is a particu¬ 
larly good pink champagne 
available. But all alcohol tends 
to make the Mood race and 
MacQuitty has plenty of other 
vinous recommendations. 
And Robin Young looks at the 
tradition of food as an 
aphrodisiac. Oysters and figs 
should be on the Valentine 
menu — and even carrot and 
coriander soup. 


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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


INFORMATION SERVICE 


This selective guide to entertainment and events throughout 
Britain appears from Monday to Friday, 
followed in the Review section on Safmday by a 
preview of the week ahead. Items shook! be sent 
to The Times Information Service, POBox7, 1 
Virginia Street, London E19XN 



BOOKING KEY 
& Seats avaflafafo 
* Returns only 
(D) Access for (Ssatried 


THEATRE 


LONDON 


* A Lire IN THE THEATRE: Denholm 
ESrott and Samuel West tn Mamet's 
study of an old actor and his ambitious 
Junior the players stronger than the 

Sfrand Theatre, Akfwych, WC2(01-836 
2660). Tube: Coven Garden. Tues-Sat 
Thurs, SM and Sun 450pm, 

* NOEL AND GERTIE: Patricia Hodge 
and Simon CadeH spar, atng and dance 
in Sheridan Money’s trip down Memory 
Lane. This show6 noth Its last week 
as stated on this page yesterday. 
Comedy Tb»atro,Ranton St London 
SW1 (01-030 2578). Tube: PfceadSy 
Circus. Mon-Fri 8 pm. Sat 8.15pm, mats 
Wed 3pm, Sat 5pm. £5to-£16. 

* THE PRICE: Welcome revival of 
Arthur Miter's tine play In which two 
brothers discover their deed lather's 
character and their own: with Bob Pack, 
David Cakter and Alan MacNaughtan. 
Young Vie Theatre. 68 The Cut, SE1 
(01-928 6363}. Tube: Waterloo. Opens 

1 7pm, then Mon-Sat 7.30pm. mat 
" n.EIO. 

ir PRftfc Commancfing p er f o rm a nce by 
SheOa Hancock as a rude, snobbish, 
autocratic college principal with 
principles you have to admtro. Last 

wgok. 

Lyre Thoatro, Shaftesbury Ave.Wl (01- 
437 3686). Tube: Plccadfly Circus. Mon- 
Fri 7.45-10.15pm, Sat a15-1045pm. 
mat Sat 4-30-7pm, E5-E15- 

* RACING DEMON: Richard Eyna 

tfirects David Hare's new play with 
MkXiaal Bryant as one ot a group of 
London clergymen trytog to do good in 
thatr inner-dty mission. 

National Theatre (CottMtoe), South 
Bank.SE1(01-9282252). Tuba 
Waterloo. Preview tonight 7.30pm, 
opens tomorrow 7pm, men in repertoire, 

* THAfOt Griff Rhys Jones and 
Dinsdsie Landen in the ciassic Akfwych 
farce. Last week. Transfers to Savoy 
Theatre. Feb 20. 

Lyric Theatre, King Street London WB 
(tn-741 2311). Tube: Hammersmith. 
Mori-Sat 7.45pm; mats Wed 250pm and 
Sat4pm,C9-£15. 

OUT OF TOWN "" 

LEATHERHEAD: ☆ How Ste eple 
Skidarby Wanderers Won the FA Cop: 
Stage version of JLL Carr's touchingly 
funny novel. 

Thomflre Theafce, Chtreti St (0372 
377877). Mon-Wed 730pm, Thure-Sst 
8 pm, £5-£9. 

LIVERPOOL ☆ Tom of Money: 
Ayckbourn's NT versnn ot the Akfwych 
farce in which very complicated 
problems follow a scheme to grab an 
inheritance. 

Playhouse, Wfltamaon Sq (051709 
8363). Mon-TTwrs 730pm. Fri and Sat 
8 pm; mat Sat 4pm, El-£750. 


FILMS 


■ Also on national release 

m Advance booking poulito 

LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN nip Raw. 
powerful version ol Hubert Selby Jrt 
onca-controversial novel of Brooklyn 
Me. from the rflrector of Christens F, 
Ulrich EdeL With Stephen Lang, JennHar 

Progs 1 J2Q. 350.620.850. Lata Fri and 
Sat11.15. 

Odeon Swto* Cottage (01-722 5905). 
Progs 1.10.340. aoo, 8.4a 
Odeon West End (01-930 5252/7615). 
Progs 1.00,350, $05,845. Late Fri and 
Sat 11.45. 

WMtalays (01-7923303). Progs 250, 
450.7.10.940. 


PARENTHOOO (IQ: Eplsotfie heart- 
warmer (ram Ron Howard about the 
toys and sorrows ot raWng cMklien. 
Features a large. OTcoBortfcast (Steve 
Martin, Mary st oenb urg o n. Dianne 
WiesL Jason Robards) (114 m ins). 
Cannon Baker Street (01-935 9772). 
255b 555,8.15. Late Fri and Sat 


Haw. 

Cannon FoRiam Road (01-370 2636). 
Progs 2.10,6.10,9.05. 


2JX), 5.00,8.15. Lata Fri and Sat 11. 
Cannon O l mfle i hu iy Avenue (01-836 
6279). Progs 2.15.5JB. 7.55. 

Pteza (01-4371234}. Progs 12.15,34)0. 
5 l 45. 8i30. Late Fri and Sal 11.15. 
WMtalaya (01-7923303). Progs 1.15, 
4.00.645.9^5. 

■ SHIRLEY VALENTINE (IQ: Warm¬ 
hearted fBm with the popular touch; 
Pauline Colins repeats her stage role as 
the Liverpool housewife redacovertng 
romance (109 min). 

a Cannon Fidbam Hoad (01-370 2836). 
Progs 2.10,6.10.920. 

Mlnoma (01-2354225). Progs 34)0, 
5.00,7.00,9.00. 

Ptana£0t-2000200). Progs 1.15.345, 
TURfER AND HOOCH (PGH Predletebte 


by Tom Hanks as the police 
investigator. 

Camon Chelsea (01-3525096). Progs 
145.4.10.7.10.940. 

Odeoo KanskMtan (01-602 6644). 
Progs 12.40.320. &00. 

Odeon Leicester Square (01-6306111). 
Progs 12430,3.00,550.815. 

WMalays (01-792 3303). Progs 11.15. 
2.00,4*30,7.15,945u 

■ WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Itt 
Engaging ro ma nti c comedy, with Bifly 
Crystal and Meg Ryan as professional 
Manhattanites who gradualy fan for 
each other. Written By Nora Ephron, 
directed by Rob Reiner <95 mtoL 
Cannon Chiton (01-3525096). Progs 
1.40.450.720.945. 

Ottoon Kenstagton (01-602 6644/5). 
Progs 1 JO. 3 55,625,855. Late today, 
tomorrow 11.15. 

Odeon Swiss Cottage (01-722 5905). 
Progs T50 (not Sai/Sun). 4.15 (not Sat, 
Sunj.620.850. 

Screen on Baker Sheet (01-3% 2772). 
Proas255,550,850. 

SB Warner West End (01-4390791). 
Progs 150,455,650,855. Lata today, 
tomorrow 11 . 10 . 

Whtteteys <01-792 3303). Progs 1.15, 
3.45,6J0,855, tomorrow ana Sun 
1150,1-45,4.15.7.00,925. 


_ CLASSICAL TOP 20 _ 

1 (1) Vtvakfc Four Seasons_Kennedy/ECO, 

2 H Bernstein In Berlin ____Bernstein, DG 

3 ( 2 ) Mandefsaahn: Viofin Concerto-Kennedy/ECO/Tate. hmv 

4 (3) Elgar: CeHo Concerto--Du Prt/Bartrtroifi/LSO, HMV 

5 (4) Elgar Cetio Concerto-—-Du Pto/Barenboim/PDO. CBS 

6 ( 6 ) Holst The Planets-Karajan/BPO. DG 

7 (5) Vhmkfi: Four Seasons-Hogwood/AAM, LOfseau Lyra 

8 (7) Bizet Carmen MghUghts--Ozawa/ONDF. Ptr&ps 

9 (9) ARrtnoni Adagio----Karajan/BPO. DG 

10 ( 8 ) SibeSus: Symphony 5-——-Rattie/CBSO. HMV 

11 (1^ Tchaflcovsky: Swan Lake Hi^digMs-Ermter/ROHO, Royai Opera 

12 (11) Lloyd Webber Requiem-Domingo/Brtghtinan/ECO. HMV 

13 (12) Mahler Resurrection- - -Kaplan. /MP Classics 

14 ( 10 ) Beethoven: Symphony 5---Karajan/BPO. DG 

15 (14) Tchaflcovsky: Nutcracker HlghUgh ts --Ermter/ROHO. RO 

16 (-) Elgar CaBo Concerto-Lloyd Webber/M enuhm/RPO, Ph$ps 

17 (-) Hoist The Planets-Davts/BPO, Ptmps 

18 <-) Puccinfc Mme Butterfly ttighftghts-Karajan/VPO. Dacca Opera 

19 {-) Bizet: Carmen Higtifights---.Karajan/BPO, DG 

20 (15) Rach ma n i nov: Piano Concerto 2-_Ashkenazy/Haibnk/COA, Dacca 

Source: Musk: Week Research 


On the road to nowhere 


DBIZK. Md^BANCE 



Non-achiever: Frances Barber during rehearsals for Afyf/eart’s a Suitcasee\ the Royal Court Theatre 


la toe days whoa die Royal Court could afford to run 
its Theatre Upstairs, Clare McIntyre's play Low Level 
Panic was given a first rate production there by the 
Womens Pfayfemse Trust and won the Samuel 
Beckett Theatre A ward. Her new play, My Heart’s a 
Suitcase, starts previewing tom orrow in the main 
house with Frances Barber in the very c on te mp orary 
role of Chris, a well-educated and intelligent woman 
who realizes at the age of 30 that she has gone 
nowhere and done nothing. The aimlessness of work¬ 
ing in an Italian restaurant, ouiying on a desultory 
affair with one of the waiters, suddenly overwhelms 
her and she takes off to Brighton in the company iff a 


friend (Sytvestra Le Teazel), another non-achiever bat 
happier with iL In Law Level Panic three women sat 
arorad in a bathroom —ifcftag about sex or the lack of 
it; here the subject is money, and the lack of that, 
which should make the play hit home to aD those who 
tabbed along on a low lend income as students and 
never grew out of the habit. The director is Max 
Stafford-Clark and the setting of a barely famished 
room in an elegant Regency boose is by a new young 
designer, Anabd Temple. My Heart’s a Suitcase , 
Royal Court Theatre, Suae Square, London SW1 
(01-730 1745). Previews from tomorrow 8pm, opens 
Febraary 13,8pm. £4-£15. Jeremy Kingston 


CONCERTS 


^ MORE ARROGANCE: In the 
"Arrogant Genius" Richard Strauss 
series. Ashkenazy conducting the RPO 
In his TKEulenstiegelena Horn 
Concerto No 2 with Schoenberg's 
Pastes und Mtosande. 

Festival HaB, South Bank, London SE1 
(01-9288800), 7509.15pm. S45OC20. 

* ALL RUSSIAN: Valery Gergiev 
conducts the BSO hi Borodin's Prince 
tocrOvertire, Rachmaninov’s Plano 
Concerto No 1 and Shostakovich's 
Symphony No 5. 

Wessex Hal, Poote Arts Centre, 

King land Rd, Poole (0202 685222). 
75upm. £440-81050. 

* ENLIGHTENED TRUMPETMCfc 
Trumpeters lotn the Orchestra of the 
Age of Ertightanmem for works by 
Cauara, Heinrich and Can Bieber. 

St John's, Smith Sq, London SWl (01- 
2221061). 750pm. £5-£1250. 

☆ NOS 20 AND 21: The SNO under 
Lapoerd plays Mozart's Piano Concerto 
No 2D (Andrei Gavrilov, soloist) and 
Symphony No 21 and Dvofflc s 
Symphony No 7. 

CaM Hal, City Sq. Dundee (0382 
202513), 750pm, E395-E11.70. 

* FROM ROMANIA: The Athenaeum 
Quartet plays Haydn's Quartet Op 76 No 
1 and Schubert's Quartet 0 810 “Death 
and the Maiden". 

Wngmore Hafl, 36 Wlgmore St. London 
Wl ( 01-935 2141). 750pm, E4-S7. 


OPERA 


* prince IGOR: Andrei Seiben's new 
production for the Royal Opera, now 
alas, without its full complement of 
dancers, but with Bernard Haitnk 
conducting a resonant Russan cast ted 
by Sergei Lettertajs. 

Royal Opera House. Covent Garden. 
London WC2 (01-2401066), 650- 
1050pm, £4-290. 


it LA TRAVIATA: Revival of David 
Pountney's challenging production for 
Engksh National Opera, now with Helen 
RskTas the Vtotetta. 

CoMseum, St Martin’s Lane, London 
WC 2 (01-8363161),750-1050pm, £3- 
233. 

* THE MBffiY WIDOW: A new 
production by Wilfred Judd starts Opera 
80's tenth anntvefsary nationwide tour. 
Stephen Bartow conducts the young 
traveling cast with Heather Lorimar as 
the widow and Richard Halton as DanOo. 
Wyvem Theatre, 9wtndon (0793 
5M481X 750-1Opm, 27 and £9. 

☆ THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Peter 
Knapp's young Traveling Opera brings 
its production to Gufldford at the start ol 
a two week season there. 

Yvonne Ameud Theatre, Guildford. 
Surrey (0483 60191), 750pm. £1050- 

£13. 


GALLERIES 


JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY (1734- 
1797): More lhan 100 portraits, 
landscapes and dram atic and original 
scenes of workmen and scientific 
exp er im ent s . 

Tala Gallery, MRbenk. London SWl 
(01-821 7128), Mon-Sat 10am-550pm, 
Sun 2950pm, £3, imtil April 22. 

THERESE OULTON: Recent paintings 
whose imagery CsUs ambtvalentiy 
between landscape and abstraction. 
Ma rib ereugh Fine Art, 6 Albemarle St 
London Wl (01-629 5161), Mon-Fri 
I0am-550pm, Sat 1 Dam-1250pm, free, 
until March 9. 

LAURA GODFREY-ISAACS: As the new 
artist-ln-reswern at the Tata Gallery this 
painter opens her studio to the puttee on 
Wednesdays 35pm and on the flret 
Saturday of the month 3-6pm. 

Ten Gallery, Atiert Dock. Liverpool 
709 3223), Tues-Sun 11 am-7pm, 

JOSE BUfTRAGO: Partings on canvas 
and steel which incorporate holograms 


by 8 Spanish artist living in London. 
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, 4 New 
Burfngton Place. London Wl (01-434 
1768), Mon-Fri lOam-Cpm. Sat 1050am- 
150pm, free, until March 10. 

HUNTING GROUP ART PHIZES: An 
annual event featuring winners and 
selected entrants chosen from an open 
submission by pamters competing for 
El0550In prize money. 

Mel Gaflonee, 17 Canton House 
Terrace. London SWl (01-930 6844), 
dally lOanvfipm, free, until Feb 17. 

THE HFTH SEASON: New. 
landscape 
Thumb Canary, 

London Wl. Mon-Fri lOam-Cpm, Sat 
11 am-4pm. free, untfl March 4. 


II SEASON: New. apocalyptic 
i paintings by David Leverett. 
teary, 38 Lexington St. 


ROCK 


ir THE SUNDAYS: indie favowites from 
Bristo! whose Reading, Writing and 
ArithmedcriMM shot m to the chart two 
weeks ago at No 4. a startling 
achievement even a Bowing tor the soft 
state ot the po 6 t-Christmas market 
BtorfceBer.Afl Saints St. Bristol (0272 
268514). 750pm, ES. 


*FAnHJ«MORE:l^fWdAmfl^ 

heavy rockers touting the sttitaMytiMad. 

martic rap-rock stogie Epic tetoTiRHn 
leflnan The Reel Thing. 


Astoria, 157 CharlngOwa Rd. Ifndon 
WC2 (01-434 0403^750pm. £7. for two 
nights. 

it TAfdTA TUCARAlt: The precocioj»fy 

talented Sweat Keeper witii a taste tor 

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it BOB DYLAN: Stifl an erratic flve 

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year’s Oh Mercy, his best recorded 

St London W6 (01-7484081),750pm. 

215, also tomorrow. _ 


JAZZ 


•p- VIVA LA BLACK: Drummer Lo ute 
Moholo toads the ateashre Free-htcSnad 
quartet „ 

Jazz Cttfa, 56 Newington Green. 

London N16 (0l-3S94to6). 850pm, £3. 
-fr HARRY SI mn tt=RSORCt«ST RA: 
An aftei noon session from the Hot Jazz 
ensemble. 

WBleadeu Green Library Centre^S 
Htah Rd. London NW10(01-4510294), 
^n. £5 & concessions. 

* FLORA PtfRM A AIHTO: Flnai few 
days wttfi the Latin doubte-act Cottrane- 

styte support from the aawtohorJst 
Man Skidmore. 

Ronnie ScotfaCtub. 47 Frith St. 

London W1JQ1-439 0747). 950pm, £10 
(members 22). To Sat 
☆ ART FARMER: Back for another tour. 

the meflifluous fluegrthom-tnanpet 
player is promoting his new aftxjm, PhD. 
Rmoua Restaurant 1 South St 
Rochtord (0702 541334).750pm, £26 
kjdudingdkiner. 


DANCE 


☆ DOUBLES: New production ot Merce 
C u nnlnghn’a work tor Rambert Banco 

MOW (035255114), 8pm, 

£650,1 ' 

* GtSBXE: Premiere of Christopher 
Gable's production tor Northern Baflet 

Theatre. _ 

City HaB. Sheffield (0742735295). 
750pm. ES-C850. 

☆ IMON DANCE: Opening of Spring 
Loaded season of new work by smati 


The Place, Dukas Rd, London WC1 (01- 
387 0031). 8 pm. £ 6 . 

« KARM VYNCXE: BeUan dancer in 
her own work Sous Ms 


ICA Tbeutre, The Mafi. London SWl 
(01-9303847), 8 pm. £5.80, £6.60. 


OTHER EVENTS 


CHItESE NEW YEAR EXHSmON: An 
bitroductton to the popular traditions 
and customs of the Chkiese New Year, 
toW through dtepteys ot stories, myths, 
artefacts. Chinese food, handicrafts and 
workshops. 

Chinese Community Centre, (second 
floor) Gerard St London Wl. Untfl Sun, 
da»y llam-5pm. Free. 

SCOTTISH BOAT, CARAVAN. 
CAMPING AND LEISURE SHOWk More 
than 300 axMbitors at Otis large show 
which occupies most ol the centre. Al 
the latest information aid advice about 
different leisure activities. 

SECC, Glasgow. Untfl Sun, today until 
Sat 11am-9pm, Sun llam-7ptn. Adult 
£35G Cited 50p. 

PLEASE TOUCHfc See ptobre. batow. 
Natural History Hhnman, Cromwell Rd. 
London SW7 (01-938 912 
Centre open Mon-Sat 10. 

Sun 1.15-5.15pm. Museum admission 
adult £250. child £1-25. 

CREATIVE EYE: An exhbition Of 
arte distinctive objects created by 
designers. 


The Princess of Wales (right), 
officially opeas the new permanent 
Activity Centre at London’s Natu¬ 
ral History Mnsenm today (see 
listings). Concentrated in one pur¬ 
pose-built area, the centre pro¬ 
vides an educational and 
interesting opportunity for child¬ 
ren to find out about natural 
history at a practical, “hands on** 
level with staff around to help 
them. The centre incorporates the 
most successful ideas from earlier 
holiday discovery centres. After¬ 
noons and weekends are the best 
times for the public to visit 



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Maetra^rLomion, London Htefl, 

London EC 2 ,1.10pm, free. 
PORTRAIT LECTURE: Dr Malcolm 

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London SE21 (01-639 5254), 8pm, 24. 


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tuba, i 1 am. £3 (01-624 9961). 

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South Bank Concart Hals, London SET 
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Charles Groves 75th birthday, SrtmUka' 
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Camtoo RemencoSpanWi Dance Ca 
Also London Savoyards to costumed 
performance of H.M.S. Pinafore, and . 
Choral Masterpiece series. 

Barbican, Sfik St. London EC2 (01-638 
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ENO SUBSCRIPTION SERIES: Booking 
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VerdTs Macbeth anti Clarissa based on, 
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St Martin's Lana, London 
WC2(01-838 0111). 


LAST CHANCE 


IHBUTTERFLY: Final perform an ces of 
David Henry Hwang fSay with Peter 
Egan, directed by. 

Sheffoabuy T h ea tre , Shaftesbury Awe. 
London WC2 (01-379 5399). 

TIE HUMAN CONOmOte Figurative 
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and Steve Payne. 

The Mnortes, 74 High St Colchester 
(0206 577067). Ends Sun. 


Theatre: Jeremy Kingston; FQbb: 
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Greta Carslaw, Other Events 
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WORD-WATCHING 

Answers from page 22 
MAIM 

(c) Calcareous loam, earth 
specially good for brick, an 
artificial mixture of day and 
chalk, from the OHG root 
met- to grind: “The soil of 
the Dotnis 1 take (o be 
generally a white earth or 


15 Act correctly ( 6 ) 

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21 Three-spot card, dtee (4) 

22 Sufficiency (4) 


FREIT 

(a) An omen, anything to 
w hich super stition attaches, 
a superstitious formula or 
dura, from the ON frett 
news: “Folk need art on 
farts to be standing/That’s 
woo'd and married and a'.” 
HO'OPONOPONO 

(b) Solving a problem by 
taJUng things oven the 
Hawaiian word for the sen¬ 
sible Hawaiian practice of a 
social gathering and healing 
process that combines re- 
Hgious ceremony, group 
therapy, town had meet ing , 
and small claims court. 
SCKOS 

(b) A sacred enclosure in an 
ancient Egyptian temple, 
from the Greek sekm a pen: 
“Having observed (hat the 
part where the sekos mast 
be was not touched. I set the 
men to walk there." 


WINNING MOVE 

By Raymond Keene, 

Chess Correspondent 



This position from the 

g ame Kaidavov (White), 
ane (Black), Foreign 
and Colonial Hastings 
Masters 1990, how does 
White forces a decisive 
gain of material? 
Solution in tomorrow's 
Times. 

Solution to yesterday’s 
position; White wins 
material with 1 Qf6+ 
Qxf62exf6+Kxf63 
Nxf4. 


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THE TIMES WEDN ESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


TELEVISION & RADIO 


Compiled by Peter Dear 
and Gillian Maxey 


for your 
thoughts 


.... ....., 


Peter Waymark 

• A reader urges me to campaign for 
more revivals of television dSsi«, 
^rtwg with MaigreL I gladly pass on 
the idea ami meanwhile commend the 

5 ru L2 f 5S2? s Pennies From 

S3H?h 25 C2 ’ which has so 

etcaea nsetf cm my memory that I was 
surprised to realize it was first transmit- 
***** long ago as 1978, when Mrs 
TJ^tcher was a mere leader of the 
Oppasrtian and Bob Hoskins still had 
hattWhitt particularly stays in the mind 
is Potters use of jaunty Thirties dance 



P e d dling dreams: Bob Hoskins as the 
sheet nnsxc saksmaa (BBC2,9.00pm) 

numbers as an ironic counterpoint to the 
story of a sheet music salesman (Hos¬ 
kins) hying to escape reality by living 

- and peddling dreams. As Hoskins drives 
west towards Potter’s Forest of Dean and 
a romance with a pretty schoolteacher 

“ (Cheryl Campbell), his wife (Gemma 
Craven) has her own dreams, a suburban 
housewife transformed into Gertrude 
Lawrence. Though Potter had fore¬ 
shadowed the device in a previous play, 
getting the characters u> mime and dance 
to the songs was bold and startling. 
Anticipating The Singing Detective and, 
to an extent, Blockeyes, Pennies is more 
accessible than either in that it (more 
or less) offers a single narrative with a 
beginning, a middle and an end. But 
nothing in Potter is entirely straight¬ 
forward. If one theme of Pennies is~ 
fentasy vows reality, another is the 
contrast between the tangible Thirties 
worid ofart deco, Camp Coffee and class 
snobberies and a semi-mystical force 
represented by the Accordion Man 
(Kenneth Colley). A “gentleman of the 
road” striking up hymn tunes on his 
sqneeze box, he is a disturbing figure, out 
of time and places defying explanation. 

• In El OLD. (ITV, 9.00pm) Alfred 
Molina is an accident-prone detective 

* with an unhappy knack of landing up in 

* hospital and John Bird a disenchanted 
paper-shuffler in the Scotland Yard 
records department Byway of a running 
joke about the location of Matlock and 
another joke about an informer called 
Maurice (Mo the grass) they decide to 
leave their unrewarding lives in the 
Metropolian Police for the pleasures of 
the Costa Del Sol Billed as a comedy 
drama, El C.IJD. is somewhat short on 
both, though Bird squeezes what laughs 
he can and there is the ma k i n gs of an 
enjoyable performance from Kenneth 
Dunham as a one-armed villain (I 
suppose I should have said bandit). 


flLOOCaafex. 

630BBC Breakfast Nows with 

Nicholas vwtehen and Laurie Mayer. 
Includes regular news headlines; 
business news; sports bulletins; 
regional news: weather and travel 
information; pkis a look at the 
morning newspapers with Paid 
CaBan 835 Regional news and 
weather 

830 News and weather fotfowed by 
Open Air. The Junior Minister for 
Health, Roger Freeman, takes 
viewers’ calls on last night's 
programmes, Taking Liberties 
and Food and Drink, which examined 

the problem of fisterfa. 

830 KUroy. Robert KMory-SRk chairs a 

studio discussion on a topical subject 
1830 News and weather followed by 


> ChOdren'a BBC, presented by 
Simon Parkin, begins with Paydays 
1030 Roobarb narrated by 
Richard Briers (r) 1035Five to 
Seven. Catherine Grifier with a 


1130 News and weather followed by 

Open Air. Jayne Irving and Eamom 
Holmes are joined by presenter 
David Jesse! and the editor of BBC's 
Food and Drink to discuss the 

health worries raised In last night's 
Taking Ltoorties. Ru3 music from 
Hank Wangford 

12L00 News and weather followed by 

Daytime Live. Alan Titch marsh and 
Judi Spiers are joined by actress 
Jean Boht. who tefles about her 
involvement with the organization 
Parents for Safe Food 1235 
Regional news and weather 
130 One O'clock News with Philip 
Hayton. Weather 

130 Neighbours. An uproar finally 

breaks out over baby Jessie, leaving 
Bronwyn feeling gumy and Todd 
tanking the whole world is against 
hkn; and Jane Mangel is 
suspicious when Joe starts moving 
the furniture around. (Ceefax) 

130 Going for Gold. European 
general knowledge quiz 
2.15 Knots Landing. Uftnaefs 

entangled in a wab of deceit and lies 
leaving an Innocent man 
suspected of minder 
335 P rimeti m e . Shefla McClennon 
meets Ruth Murray , an av id 

bed^^and visits IteronimaJ 
sanctuary near Exeter. Presented 
by David Jacobs 330 Cartoon 
Double Bii (r) 

330 Fireman Sam (r)430 M2cfc and 
Mac. With Michael Barrymore and 
David Jarvis 4.10 ScmiTed 
430 Jacfcanory. Michael Williams 
with part three of Alison Prince's 
How's Business 435Teenage 
Mutant Hera Turtles. Animated 
adventures 

530 Newsroond 5.10 Little Sir 

Nicholas. The final episode In the 
series and the search for 
Nicholas continues 
535 Neighbours frl (Ceefax) 

530Six O’clock News with Anna Ford 
and Andrew I 


530 TV-am begins with News and 
Good Momfaig Brttadn, presented by 
Richard Keys and, from 730, by 
Mate Morris and Lorraine Kelly. 
Includes news at 030,730, 

730,530,030 and 830L After 
Mne features Dr George Dodd 

a . w ll£. d ?5S* ea ^ P° WBr of perfome 

935 Lucky Ladders. Word association 
game935Thames News and 
weather 

1030The Tone. ..The Place... 

Topical Oscussion series 
1040TWs Morning. Magazine 

programme presented by Judy 
FmrSgan and Richard Madefey. 
Speaal features today include agony 
aunt Denise Robertson helping to 
solve emotional problems; 

microwave recipes; and detafis of 
voluntary organizations that need 
help. With national and 
International news at 1035and 
regional news at 1135 followed 
by national weather 
1&10 Alberts. For the young 1230 

Home and Away. Martin tries to end 

Ms relationship with Learme tut 
she misunderstands completely 
130 News at One with John Suchet 
Weather 130 Thames News and 
weather 130 Santa Barbara. 
FOBowed by Crknestoppera 
230Look Good, FOef Great. In the first 
edition of this new series Bob HaB, 
Anne Davies, Diana Moran and 
Kate Sturgess Investigate the latest 
American fads and fashions in the 
world of health, fitness and beauty 
230Take Ihe High Road. Can 
Sneddon and Claire keep their 
secret? 

330Win, Lose or Draw. Celebrity 

game show hosted by Danny Baker 
335Thames News and weather i 
330Coronation Street A repeat of 
Monday's episode 

430 Wowser. Adventures of a shaoav 


7.10 Open University: Managki 
Schools735Close 

830News 8.15 Westminster 
930Ceefax 


theme of this week's programme 
Is dogs 430 Mr Majefka. A 
babysitting job at Hallowe’en 
causes problems for Mr Majefta 
5.10 Blockbusters. General knowledge 
quiz for sixth-formers 
540 News with Nicholas Owen. 
Weather 

830 Home and Away (r) 

635Thames News and weather 
630Thames Help. Jackie Spreckley 
with Information on a new 
organization London Youth 


730TWs Is Your Life presented by 
Michael Aspei 

730 Coronation Street Mike Baldwin 
wants to know who's trying to upset 
his critical business deal, and 
why. (Oracle) 

830No Job for a Lady: Who Goes 
Home? First episode in a new six- 


with Anna Ford 
and Andrew Harvey. Weather 
830Ne w s ro om South East 
730Wogan. Tortghfs guests teduda 
Usa Stansfield 

735Family Ma t ter s; Aids in Schools. 
Joanna Kaye visits a school in wMch 
children are canytag the Aids 
virus and taBcs to two adopted HIV- 
positive children whose parents 
take opposing views on whether or 
not the children's identities 
should be kept secret 
835Dallas: Fathers and Other 

Strangers. Miss EHfa and Ctayton are 

the mystery of titek^^eefax) 

830Points of View presented by Anne 
Robinson 

830Mne O’clock News with Martyn 
Lewis. Regional news and weather 
930033: Welcome to Fat Camp. A 
documentary following three young 
people attending Camp Shane, 
where American parents takB their 
overweight chSdren to be treated 
for their addictions to junk food. 


1030SportsmgliL Steve Rider 

introduces action from the Benson 
and Hedges Masters snooker 
tournament from the Wembley 
Conference Centre and there s a 
preview of this summer's football 
World Cup In Italy 
1133 Doga Bodes: Breeding for 

Health or Beauty? Is this country's 
dog-breetfing policy indifferent to 
the health and waU-being of man’s 
best Wend? Geneticist Malcolm 
WilBs argues that the British allow 
fashion rather than heaitfi to 
dictate the way our dogs are bred 
1235am Weather 


Penelope Keith as a Labour MP 

830The Bonn Lucas Show. Top 

American ventriloquist Rorm Lucas 
hosts a new series of six half- 
hour variety shows. In tonight's show 
he Introduces the tap-dancing 
Clark Brothers and Michel LauzJere, 
the amazing "man in a balloon", 
plus comedy impressionist Peter 
Piper 

930B &LD: Copping Out (Oracle) 

(see Choice) 

1030 News at Ten with Alasteir Burnet 
and Trevor McDonald. Weather 
1030Thames News and 
weather 

1035Thames Classic Snooker. The 

winner of tonight's three-frame final 
win receive the WOBam HM Trophy 
and £2,500, plus the chance to 
double his prize money if he can 
beat World Champion Steve Davis 

1230FBnc Last Video and Te s t a men t 

(1984) starring Deborah Raffia, OHver 
Tobias and David Langton. An 
electronics expert learns that his wife 
has been unfaithful and takes Ms 
own death, threatening that he witi 
"return" with the help of his 
electronic gadgets to take Ms 
revenge. Dvected by Peter Sasdy 

130am Stories in foe ffight The 
series which examines the 
paranormal focuses tonight on 
psychic healing. 

230 News headlines fotawed by 

Vfdeofashfon. A look at the latest 
fashion trends in London, Paris. 

MBan, New York and Los Angeles 

230America’s Top Ten 

330Friday the 13th./taftnw'em 1 

Danger threatens when the ghost of 
Unde Lewis returns on 
Halloween, intent on murder. 

430 News heaeflines followed by 
RoHycross 

430 Fifty Years On fo/w). Vintage 
newsreels 

530ITN Morning News with Richard 
Bath. Ends at 830 


natural forces930Germanfor 
beginners 1035 For the very 
young 1030Science: structures 
1040 Disabled chrktren in 
Scotland 1130 Learning to read 
11.13 Walrus 1135 Managing 
schools 12.10 TTie science of fuels 
1230A young man leaves home 
after a family row 1235 Effective 
communication 130£terttar14G 
The Odyssey 

230 News and weather foflowed by a 
stray for chfldren 

2.15 Racing (ram Ascot Jufian WHson 
introduces Ova coverage of the 230, 
3.05 and 335 races. The 
commentators are Peter O'SuDevan 
and Richard Pitman'. Includes 
news and weather at235and 330 

430Country FBe (i) 

435 International Snooker. Further 

coverage of the Benson and Hedges 
Masters 

530FBm 90 wfth Barry Norman (r) 

530HoBday 90 (r). (Ceefax) 

830 D6F U begins with The Invaders. 
Adventure series starring Roy 
Thames (r)530Reportage 735 
Rapids. Tne special guest is Mtahael 
Hutehence. Australian star of 
INXS and Max Q, seen recortSng in 
Sydney. Plus a special session 
from beat poet/performer Allen 
Ginsberg m New York City 

835 Bookmark: Miron Grindea’s 

Adam. A celebration of the life and 
work of 81 -year-old Miron 
Grindea, the Romanian exlie who 
edited the outstanding Iterary 
magazine Adam 

930Pennies from Heaven: Down 

K&^m s SS3 ice > 

season of classic works by Samuel 
Beckett continues with Not /, a 
short piay depleting fragments from 
the Ste of a 70-year-old woman, 
using the stunning visual effect of a 
disembodied mouth. Billie 
Whhelaw, whose mouth it is, 
introduces the performance (r) 
Newsntght 

11.15 The Late Show. Michael tgnatieff 
chairs a discussion on the issues 
raised by last night's Salman 
Rushde lecture 1135 Weather 
1230Open Unhmstty: The Planet 

Earth - A Scientific Model 1225am 
Oger^xum Magazine. Ends at 




830The Channel Four DaBy 
935 School* 

1230The Parliament Programme 
introduced by Sue Cameron 
1230Business Duy presented by 
Susannah Simons 
130 Sesame Street Pre-school 
learning series 

230The Carets. The final p ro gra mme 

in this Open CoGege series on carers. 
Today they attenefa training 
course on violence and aggression at 
work (rl (Oracle) 

230 Beyond the Dream. The Story of 
Roman Catholics who arrived in 
America in 1845 and suffered 
relialous nersecution 
330Mauvais Esprit. Puppet animation . 
340The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah 
d is cuss es with single women the 
pros and cons of dating married 
men 

430Countdown. Today's challenger is 
Linda Keen. The questionmastor is 
Richard Whlteley assisted by 
Lance Pencival 

530 Pob Goes to HosptaL Fbr the 

530^ounSy Ways. Sussex’s South 

Downs Way, presented by 3m Flegg 

830 stamp of Greatness. The story of 
Bednch Smetana - the father of 
Czech music-who struggled for 
music&l recognition in the Austro- 
Hungarian empire 
630A Dif fe rent World. American 
campus comedy series 
730Channel 4 News with Jon Snow 
and Zeinab Badawi 
730 Party Political Comment from a 
Scottish National Party pofiticiaa 
Followed by Weather. 

830 Brookskte. Frank is forced to 


SKY ONE 


830 Brooks k t e . Frank is forced to 

admit that he's promised to join the 
work's co-op. (Oracle) 

830Dispatches. If universities and 
coueges become more market 
orientated, as the Government 
would like, wffl it mean a threat to 
standards of higher education? 

8.15 Signals: The Day the Music Dies? 
The conductor Jane Glover 
investigates the future of music 
education 

1030 FBm: Little Vera (1988) starring 

Natalya Negoda as a young woman 
who drifts Into casual sex, drink 
and aimless jobs - afl to free herself 
from the boredom of famfly fife in 
a dun industrial port Directed by 
Vasiii Pichul. On Russian with 
English subtitles) 

1230am Buygones. Selections from 
the C/ubX series 

130 Al Jarreau recorded in Milan in 
1983(f). Ends at 2.10 


BBC1 WM r«i« 70|»in 7.00 Wales Today 
. OBSffA tT OBw 12.10 Ncwb and wmttmr 

scovuuteioaoreiiteDowwuore' 

740 Reporting Scotland NORTHERN MEUINM 
BJHfoa Sportswlde040430InaUtt Ulster 550 
Neighbours 1U-7J0 Inside Ulster Update 7JM 
DwTa Army OMUMPi «.30PH» 740 Regional 
nawsmagaztowB 

BBC2 RORTHereinteiJuei ioow«b- 

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3L00 Magic Wok 510-840 Hottm and Away UW 
LookafoundWadnaaday 040-730 BkxMxatDra 
lOJSFBm: Murphy^ Law lUSam Nignt Haat140 
Donahue SJBO 60 Mtnutaa 9.1» Mp* Baal 0.1550O 
Vietnam: the Ten Thousand Day War 
CENTRALAa Lon don wmaptn-ZO New 1 J 0 

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104011m: Miaphy^ Law 1Z20MB Tour of Dw 14S 
Stories in ttw Night 140 Sponsworfd ZM Rkn: 
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51M40 Homa and AwmOJM Channai NawseJMk 
TMUocMxman lAASRhit Murphya Law 
1240am Viaware'ChoicaSJOChart Attack 520 
tegteHaat00430 Warn Tel 


TVS Aa London a>rep=l30pai News V30RJM 
•!■== Coaat id Coast People a.lO-OwCO Home and 
Away 200 Coast la Coast S30-T30 aiocktiusMm 
1038Flm: Murphy's Law 1230am Viewers* Choice 
230 Chart Attack330MgM Ha«430430WWam 
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BiocMwstara 1038Nm: Starttn Over 1230m 
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238 tnaigW 500 Vtotnam: the Ten Thousand I3ay War 
330Music Box430430Jobfodar. 



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HTV WALES 







SJDOmm international Business Report 
530European Business Channel830The 
DJ Kat Show830Panel Pot Pourri 
1030The New Price is Right 1030The 
Young Doctors 1130 Sky by Day 1230 
Another World 1J)Op«n As tne World Turns 
2LOO Loving230A Problem Shared 
330Here's Lucy330Dennis the Menace 
345Captain Caveman 430The New 
Leave It to Beaver530Sky Star Search 
530The New Price is Right030Sale 
of the Century 730 Hey Dad 730 Mr 
Belvedere 8 jOO Downtown 930 Falcon 
Crest1030 Jameson Tonight 1130 Sky 
Work! News Tonight 1 130 Voyagers! 

SKY NEWS 
News on the hour. 

530am imemationaJ Business Report 
530 European Business Channel 030 
International Business Report 1030 
Frank Bough 1130 international Business 
Report 130pm NBC Today 230 
Parliament Live 3.15 Parliament Live 430 
NBC Today530 Live At Rv8630 
Beyond 2CnO 730 The Reporters 1030 
The Reporters 1130 NBC News 
1230am Frank Bough 130 Target 230 
The Reporters 330 Frank Bough 430 
Target 

SKY MOVIES 

From e .O Oam The Shopping Channel 
230pm Home Sweet Homeless: The 
head of a family is made redundant 
330 Little Miss Perfect A young gkl 
attempts to live up to her mothers 


430 Yabba Dabbs Doo Celebration: 
Animated fun with the FBmstones 
630 Sacred Ground (1983): A 
wHdemess adventurer decides to settle on a 
sacred Indian burial ground 
740 Entartebiment Toreght 
830Shag (1988): Phoebe Cates enjoys 
a forbidden weekend at the beach 
840 At tfte Pictures: Cinema releases 
1030The Man Who Broke 1,000 
Chains (1987): A man, unjustly faked, makes 
a bid for freedom. With Val Kikner 
1135 For Those I Loved - Part Two 
(1982): Based on the raaWife wartime 
experiences of Polish Jew Martin Gray 
230am A Sense of Freedom: Story of 
Jimmy Boyle, Glasgow gangster turned 
writer 

430The Bounty (1984): With Anthony 
Hopkins and Mel Gibson. Ends at835am 

EUROSPORT 

530am As Sky One 830 Menu 9.00 
Basketball 1130 Motor Sport 1230Indoor 
Supercross 130pm Horse Show 230 
World Championship of Motor Sport 330 
FOotbalL-Real Madrid v Mallorca 530 
Golf: The Jamaica Classic630Indoor 
Supercross730Trans World Sport 
830World Championship Boxing 1030 
Football 1230Bodybuilding 


630am Kristiane Backer 1030At the 
Movies 1130 Remote Control 1130 CluO 
MTV 1230 Kristiane Backer 130pm 
Marcel Vanthik 330 Non-Stop Pure Pop 
4303from 14.15 Marcel VanthOt 430 
Coca-Cola Report445 Marcel VantMt 
530 Remote Control 530 Ray Cokes 
730United Nations of House 730Club 
MTV030At the Movies 830 US Top 
201030 Coca-Cola Report 10.15 Maflcan 
Wexo 130am Videos 

SCREENSPORT 

730am Boxing 0301990 indoor 
Supercross IOuOO US Pro Ski Tour 1030 
Spain Spain Sport 1045French Rugby 
League 12.15pm Ice Hockey 2.15 World 
Rally Championships 3.151989 Ultimate 
Yacht Race 430Spain Spate Sprat 4.15 
Spanish Soccer830 US Professional 
Boxing 730 US PGA Golf930Ice 
Speedway1030Sport an France 
1130 Spanish Soccer 

LIFESTYLE 

1030am Fitness Minute 1031 Search 
for Tomorrow 1030 Fashion Fite 1035 
Wok with Yan 1130 Coffee Break 
11.10 Edge of Night 1135 Great American 
Gameshows 1230pm What's New 
1235 Sally Jessy Raphael 130 Skyways 
240Search for Tomorrow 3-05 Tea 
Break 3.10 Target The Corrupters 435 
Travel View435 Lifestyle Plus 443 
Great American Qameanows _ 

• Fun information on satellite TV 
programmes is available in the weekly 
magazine, TV Guide. 


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530am untfl 430pm, then at 
730,830and 1030pm 
% 800am J&kki Brambles 630 
” Simon Mayo 930 Simon Bates 


1230pm Newsbeat 1245 
Gtey Davies330Stave Wright m 
the Afternoon 530 News *90 
630Mark Goodter 730 Adrian 
Juste 830 John Pael 1030 
Nfcky Campbell 1230830am 
Richard Skinner 

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AMmAtex Lester 630 
David Aflan730Derek Jameson 
930 Ken Bruce 1130 Jimmy 
Young 13S«m David Jacobs 230 
Gloria HufSfofd330Aifoan 
Love 535John Dmn730Folk on 
2 830 Latin Quarter 835 _ 

Listen to the Band 1030Dgance 
Does It... Sportingly 1036 
Thanks for the Memory 1130 
Round MkWght 130am 
Nightride330430A Little Night 
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only) 

636 Weather and News 
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Point LPO under Leonard 
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Members of the tndelfton 
String Quartet); Elgar (Three 
Bavarian Dances: English 
Siring Orchestra under 
WflRam Boughton) 

730News j 
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(Batiet music, Ztenire et 
Azor RPO under Beecham); 
Granados (Piano Quaint to 
G minor AlbemJ String 
Quartet, with Thomas 
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Christophs Goto, celto, 
Patrick Cohen, tortepwno); I 
Thirst "The Sevan Last 
Words": (Academy of 
St Maitin-ln-the-Ffeids 
under NeviBe Marriner); 
Quartet to C, Op 54 No 2 
(Gattriefl Quartet); Father, 
Into Thy HaneteTlw 
Earthquake The Seven 
Last Words" (Academy of 
St Martto-to-the-FJelds 
under Nevtite Marriner) 

035 A Pastoral Interlude: 

Schubert (Shepherd on the 
Hock: Nash Ensembtek 

Schubert, transc Liszt (Die 
Taubenpost John Btagham, 
piano); Monteverdi (Tirol e 
oori: Engish Beroqua 
Soloists and Montevencfi 
Choir under Gardiner, with 
Patrfzia Kwela, soprano, 
Anthony Rotfe Johnson. 

Beethoven (Sonata toA. for 
vioftt and piano. Op 30 No 

1130 mSw* Choice w«i Susan 
Sharpe. Prokofiev (Knight’s 
Mnce “Romeo and JuBet": 
Boston SO under Seg 

Ozawak Mozart ffimfonia 

concertante In eW K 

297b: Berfin PO under Von 
IQoajan, with Kari Steins, 
oboe, Herbert Stihr, 
clarinet,Noroert . . . . 
Hauptmann, hom. Manfred 
Braun, bassoon); Planquette 
(Us Cloches deComewte, 
hvoriue and Act t— 


excerpts: Paris Opera- 
Comique Chorus and 
Orchestra under Jean 
Doussard, with Mady 
Mespld, soprano. Bernard 
Sinclair, baritone); J.C. Bach 
(Sonata In E flat Op 5 No 4: 
Ingrid HaebJer, forteplano); 
Coieridge-Taylor (Petite 
suite da concert, Op 77: 
PhBharmonia under 
Weldon); Wffiam Alwyn 
(Lyra angelica. Concerto fbr 
harp and string orchestra: 
LPO under Vratam Alwyn, 
with Osfan Effis, harp); 
Rachmaninov (Come Let Us 
Rest Op 26 No 3: Efisabetti 
SOderotrom, soprano, 
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) 
130pm News 

135 Concert Hat Live from the 
BBC Concert HaB. London. 
Alexander Bailtie. cetio, and 
Ronan 0*Hora, piano. 


LWjs^StenaoonFM 


Pieces, Op 7a Beethoven 
(Sonata in A, Op 69); 
Schumann (Adagio and 
AHegro,Op70) 

230 Record Review (r) 

3.10 Vintage Years: Ateutfo 

Argenta conducts Debussy 
(Par las tubs et par les 
chemins “tbdria : Swiss 
Romande Orchestra); 
Rodrigo (Concerto de 
Arar^uer Spanish National 
Orchestra, with Narciso 
Yepes, guitar); Ernesto 


“Sinfortietta'T Spanish 
National Orchestra) 

430 Choral Evensong: Live from 
Canterbury Cathedra! 

530Songs of the Humpbacked 


tradkfona! music from 
Papua New Gutoea are 
presented by John Thomtey 

530 Mainly fbr Pleasure with 
Fritz Spiegl 

730 News 

735 Third Ear with Robert 
Hewison 

730 SNO under Neeme Jfirvt 
with Lydia MordJcovfteh, 
viotin. porforms 
Shostak ovi ch (Vtofin 
Concerto No 2k Mahler 
(Symphony No S), tod 835 
Interval Reading 

935Lontano under Odallne de la 

Martinez performs Bartpk 


Merle non Stravinsky 
(Suite. L'ffetofre du soktat): 
Schoenbera, arr Webetn 
(Chamber Symphony No 1), 
tod 10.15 Interval Rmdng 
1045 The Baptism, by Guy de 
Maupassant Reader Anton 
Lesser (r) 

1130 Compraers of the week: 
Alan Rawsthome end 
Maicokn Wi&amson (i) 
1230 News 
1235am Close 


535am Shaping Forecast 830 
News Briemg; weather 
810 Fanning Tcxtey 825 
Prayer for the Day 830 
Today, with Brian Redhead < 

and Sue MacGregor, tod 
•30,740,730,840, 

830 News 638,735 < 

Weather 835 Yesterday to 
Parfiamant 83? Weather 
930 News 

935 Midweek with Ubby Pines 

1030Views; Gardeners' Question 
Time(r) 

1030 Momng Story: Technical 

Difficulties, by Clare Boytan. I 

Reed by Eleanor Bron 
1045 Dafiy Service i 

1130 News; The Wednesday 

Feature: The Countryade to ' 

Winter. Tracing the rural ' 

roots of perfume maktog, ’ 

MolSe Harris visits the 
Ootswoid Perfumery and '• 

discovers some of ns 
creative secrets I 

1147 One Night at the Opera: hi 
the last programme of the 
series, actress Fenella 
Raiding tafis Monty t 

Hattreort about tw 
enthusiasm for opera 
1230 News; You and Yours with 
John Howard 

1235pm Out of Order: Patrick 

Hannan chairs a fight- 1 

hearted pofltical quiz. The 
two teams are captained by 
MPs Austin Mitchell and 
Jufian CritcMsy. Last 
gogra mmejrrtlte series (a) 

130 The World at One with 
James Naughtie 

140 The Archers (r) 135 * 

Shipping Forecast 

230 News; Women's Hour II 

Presented by Jerml Murray. 
Includes a discussion on the It 

way citizenship is taught In 
dr schools; an Item on the 
jazz and blues singer Hope 11 

Augustus; a feature on 
Teeth Reflef—the dental 
programme now running In 
Zambia: and the history of 
the Motley Theatre Design 
Group Is traced, with the 11 

assistance of Sir John IS 

Gielgud and Hayden Griffin 
330 News; Carnival Wna Play 

by Bruce Bedford. The FI 

locals of a Somerset vBage H 

pub are assisted in the* 1- 

attempts to win the annual 2J 

Carnival Cup by an astute PI 

Londoner, wait James U* 

Grout as Derek Simmons Gu 

and Sarah Nevffla as KBdd an 

Von Thwaite (a) Sc 

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347 Tkne tor Verse: The test of 
five programmes in which 
Alexis Uckyard Interviews 
poet Kit Wright about tas Bfo 
and poetry 

430 News 

435 File on 4 with reporter Unde 
Alexander (r) 

445 Kaiektosoope Extra: A Year 
to Hiding. Paul Alan 
examines the issues 
sumxtoding Salman 
Rushdte's exile (s) 

530 PM with Hugh Sykes and 
Frances Covecda la 530 

Shipping Forecast 335 
Whether 

830Six O'Oock News; Ftoandal 
Report 

630 Round Britain Quiz: Chaired 

r J »SSi?* A,, " ww 

735The Archers 

730 Face the Facte with John 
waits 

745 Meddne Now with Geoff 
Watts (I) 

8.15 Classes Apart?: Series 
compering the lives and 
fortunes of three tamffles 
fivtog hi Somerset (r) 

845 Wffl You Stfll Love Me? (new 
soles): Over-sixties from 
around Britain tafic frankly 
about love and relationships 
amongst the older 
generation (a) (see Choice) 

9.15 Kaleidoscope: .flm HBey 
reviews A Clockwork 
Grange at the Barbican 
Theatre; Duncan Bui on tiie 
Wright of Derby exhibition at 
the Tate Gaflenp; and an 
Item on the Aslan 
production of Tartutfa at the 
National Theatre (s) 

945The Financial World Tonight 
938 Weather 

1030 The World Tonight with 
Alexander MacLeod 
1048 A Book at Bedtime: Love 
Lessons, by Joan Wyndriam 
(3 of 10) (s) 

1130 Sweet ana Low-Down: 
Robert Cushman gives a 
personal view of New York 
cabaret and American 
popular song (s) (see 

1130 Today In Parfiament 
1230-1230wn News, tod 1230 
Weather 1233 Shipping 
Forecast 

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ll-O Oam -1230 For Schools 
138pm Listening Comer (s) 
235-330 Fbr Schools 530335 
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and Modernism 1230-1.10 Night 
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• WOI You Still Love Me?, a 
four-part series starting to¬ 
night (Radio 4, 8.45pm) is 
concerned with the pleasures 
and pains we can either look 
forward to, or dread, in the 
autumn of our lives. Yet, 
paradoxically, it is the brain¬ 
child of a team catering to the 
interests of those still enjoying 
their springtime — the BBCs 
Youth Programmes Unit, 
though I admit the paradox is 
less dramatic if you consider 
that the seedling of today is 
the gnarled oak of tomorrow. 
This pastoral train of thought 
is reinforced by tonight's in¬ 
augural programme which is 
about the sexual relationships 
of the over-sixties. Implicitly, 
it pooh-poohs what Browning 
says on the subject: “What 
Youth deemed crystal. Age 
finds out was dew/Mora set a- 
sparkle, but which noon quick 
dried.” Most of tonight's ven¬ 
erable witnesses, discussing 
their most intimate secrets 
with a degree of frankness 
usually found only in sexually 
uninhibited youngsters, draw 
attention to the sparkling crys¬ 
tals that still adorn their 
marriage bed. 



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Sweet and Low-Down (Radio 
4, J 1.00pm), Robert Cush¬ 
man's eulogies to popular 
American song. This final 
edition gets around, at last, to 
Frank Sinatra, one of song- 
doxn's greatest stylists. 


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The MP with time 
for the other side 



Thatcher confirms readiness 
to review military strategy 


More concessions 
made by Pretoria 


By Philip Webstar, Chief Political Correspondent 


The Government’s readiness 
to riiangpa in the 

military strategy of Britain 
and the Nato anianna in 
response to the changes in 
Eastern Europe was confirmed 
yesterday by the Prime Min¬ 
ister and by Mr Tom King, 
Secretary of State for Defence. 


Secretary of State for Defence. 

Mr King told the Commons 
that the changes, which the 
Government hoped would en¬ 
dure, “do offer the prospect of 
economies and the prospect of 
changes in our defence 
arrangements”. Mrs Thatcher 
later gave what MPs saw as the 
first sign of a softening in her 
stance on the modernization 
of short-range nuclear weap¬ 
ons in Europe, the issue which 
threatened a major Nato split 
last year. 

She told a Labour MP who 


had asked why she wanted 
short-range weapons trained 
on East Germany to be mod¬ 
ernized at a time when they 
were struggling for democrat 
that “the changes and negotia¬ 
tions that are taking place will 
require some difference in the 
weapons we need”. 

Whitehall sources said later 
that Mrs Thatcher was 
acknowledging the need to 


Hurd urges caution. 


look at changes in strategy and 
defence requirements in the 

fight of chang in g events. 

But MPs detected in her 
remarks and those of Mr King 
a shift of emphasis away from 
initial responses to the Soviet 
bloc changes and American 
force reductions. 


The Times disclosed last 
week that Mrs Thatcher is 
heading an informal group of 
ministers who are assessing 
the way ahead for Nato in the 
li g ht of di e diminishing threat 
from the nations of the War¬ 
saw pact 

The group, whose existence 
has since been confirmed by 
government sources, is under¬ 
stood to be turning their 
attention to other areas of 
potential trouble for the West 
and considering more flexible 
multi-purpose roles for Brit¬ 
ain’s forces. 

Mr King said yesterday: 
“We need to keep under 
review the changes that are 
taking place. There is not 
some quick trick ... there is 
not some smart answer.” 

Mrs Thatcher again empha¬ 


sized her caution over the 
reunification of Germany, 
suggesting that there should be 
a “considerable” tr ansitio n 
period. 

But she said that this would 
enable Herr Helmut Kohl, the 
West German Chancellor, to 
meet without difficulty the 
obligations required under 
Nato, the Helsinki agreement 
and the four-power agreement 
on Berlin. 

Mr Michael fatham, Cons¬ 
ervative MP for Rutland and 
Melton, said that a unified 
Germany now seemed not 
only inevitable bat immin ent. 

He said dial that would 
have enormous implications 
for western defence policy, 
requiring detailed, radical and 
possibly uncomfortable cons¬ 
ideration by Nato leaders. 


Strikers ‘jeopardize’ Ford investment 


Continued from page 1 
to the chairs and tables, and 
kick and say ‘I’m not coming 
out’,” Dr Boesak said. “How¬ 
ever, he will warn them that, if 
the conditions are not met, be 
will be obliged to issue a 
statement about them on his 
release.” If Dr Boesak's state¬ 
ments reflect Mandela’s views 
accurately, they appear to 
remove the last political ob¬ 
stacles to his freedom. 

Mr Walter Sisulu, who re¬ 
turned home yesterday from 
visits to Zambia, Tanzania 
and Scandinavia, with other 
recently freed ANC leaders, 
said: “We consider De Klerk’s 
speech a progressive step, but 
unfortunately there were some 
half measures. 

“We see no reason why 
Nelson Mandela was not re¬ 
leased. . ” The armed struggle 
would continue. 

• LONDON: The Govern¬ 
ment has protested to South 
Africa about the expulsion of 
two British journalists over 
their coverage of the rebel 
cricket tour, the Prime Min¬ 


ister told the Commons yes¬ 
terday (Philip Webster writes). 

But she angered opposition 
MPs by relaying, without 
comment, Pretoria's stated 
reasons for expelling them. Mr 
Neil Kinnock, tire Labour 
leader, said it showed “just 
bow much of an apologist for 
apartheid she has become”. 

Mrs Thatcher said: “We 
support the freedom of the 
press and we have told the 
South African authorities that 
we regret these expulsions.” 

Later she repeated South 
Africa's explanation that one 
man entered the country as a 
tourist and foiled to get the 
necessary journalists’ visa and 
permit, and the other gave a 
first-person account of an 
anti-tour demonstration at 
Johannesburg airport at which 
he had not been present. 

Mr Paddy Ashdown, the 
Liberal Democrat leader, said: 
“It comes to something when 
the Prime Minister uses the 
despatch box to relay the 
South African Government's 
excuses...” 


I was miles away yesterday, 
pondering the strange case of 

the MP who began to see the 

other man’s point of view. 

His name is Michael 
Latham; he is the Tory MP 
for Rutland and Melton; and 
be has just made one of the 
most remarkable statements 
ever heard from an MP of 
sound mind and healthy 
majority. 

Quietly, Mr Latham has 
ann ounced that he will not be 
standing at the next election. 
He will join the tiny band of 
MPs who quit voluntarily, 
young, untouched by scandal, 
and without a knighthood. 

Why is he going? Lei « 
have it in his own words. 

“To fight the party battle,” 

be says, you must be partisan. 

“It makes them tide.” _ 

And him? This is the 
remarkable bit 

“Frankly,” be says “I have 
found myself thinking there 
is a lot to be said for other 
points of view. 

“A certain amount of the 
zest one needs for this job has 
gone. One cannot really do 
the job properly without that 
zest and that political fire. 1 
have to say that, frankly, I do 
not regard myself as a very 
good politician...” 

Now, before the Labour 
Party claim to have effected 
Mr Latham's partial conver¬ 
sion to socialism, let me 
explain what I believe my old 
colleague means. 

He does not mean he has 
concluded that his party is 
wrong and the opposing party 
right Still less does be mean 
tha t the right answer lies 
somewhere half way between 
the two. He means that be is 
heartily sick of the whole 
“right vs. wrong” dogfight, 
and sick of pretending that he 
knows the answers at alL Mr 
iatham is suffering from a 
new illness which experts are 
only now beginning to rec¬ 
ognize and diagnose: ideo¬ 
logical MJL It is probably 
tenninaL 

Could it spread? The ef¬ 
fects, at Westminster, could 
be cataclysmic. 

Take Prime Minister’s 
Questions, yesterday, when 
Mrs Thatcher and Mr 
Kinnock discussed the 
schools inspectors’ report, 

“This report,” Mr Kinnock 
might say, “is good in parts. 
But it does suggest that we've 
a little way to go yeL Or have 
I misread it?” 


“Hm ” replies the PM; 
reflectively, “Well, yes and 
no. As you ray, Neil, we 
haven't ironed out all the 
problems. But - as you'd be 
fiitf to admit-the inspectors 
found much to praise:” 

“Sure, Maggie, but— as I 
know you’d want to acknowl¬ 
edge — they had some harsh 
things to ray, too. Not aff 
your fault, I r ealiz e : frankly, 
education began to go off the 
rails during the last Labouir 
Government...” 

“Oh come, NdL Someofii 
is our fault. I think everyone 
accepts we’ve driven the 
teachers spare with all the so^ 
called ‘reforms' we’ve hem 
throwing at them..." 

“Too modest, Prime Mini 
ister. These c h anges had ft) 
come. Without your courage 
and resolution... ” 

“Oh, it's not been down tq 
me, NeiL I'vegotawonderful 
t ea m working for me —.and 
the Opposition has done -a 
splendid job, too, keeping us 
all on our toes...” 

You may be surprised to 
hear that it did not go quite 
thus. What actually 'hap¬ 
pened was this... *• 

Mr Kinnock called the 
schools' inspectors’ repot a 
“damning indictment”. 

Mrs Thatcher replied that 
most schools were satisfac¬ 
tory and the inspectors had 
given a better summary than 
Mr Kinnock. So sucks. 

The Labour leader weat 
absolutely bananas and 
shouted that if only, two 
thirds of schooling ; was 
satisfactory that meant thala; 
third of it was “lousy”. Why 
didn’t she “teD the Whole 
truth?” 

The Prime Minister re¬ 
torted that it was a “good 
report”. So knickers. 

Mr K got even angrier. 
Children were “being be¬ 
trayal” and she did not cate.. 

Mrs T said that at least the: 
inspectors were able to keep- 
their fluff on... 

And so on. Later, someone 
hurled a notebook down from; 
the public gallery, aimed (it : 
seemed) at the Chief Whip. 

While I write, the air above 
Westminster is thick wigi- 
insults, as Michael Lathadr. 
MP picks up his little knap* , 
sack and trudges sadly off* 
towards the Rutland sunset ' 
He had become (be sighed 
last week) “for too bland". . 


Matthew Parris 


By Kerin Eason 
Motoring Correspondent 


Ford last night gave a warning 
that wildcat strikes costing the 
company £10 million a day 
could mean the end of vital 
investment in its 21 British 
factories. 


Britain’s biggest car com¬ 
pany is taking a firm stand 
against 2,300 striking crafts¬ 
men who are refusing to 
accept its two-year pay deal 
against the wishes of the rest 


of the 32,000 workforce. Mr 
John Hougham, Ford's direc¬ 
tor of personnel, said last 
night in Gerona, northern 
Spain, there would be no new 
talks with leaders of the two 
main unions involved in the 
disput es, the electricians' 
EETPU, and the Amal¬ 
gamated Engineering Union. 

He pointed out that the pay 
deal of 18.2 per cent over two 
years was accepted in a secret 
ballot by a majority of the 
hourly-paid workforce 


throughout Ford. Yet, while 
93 per cent of the employees 
were manning production 
lines normally, just 7 per cent 
— the craftsmen and elec¬ 
tricians — were causing wide¬ 
spread disruption, inducting 
13,000 lay-ofls in Britain and 
B el giu m - 

Mr Hougham emphasized: 
“There will be no new negotia¬ 
tions. There will be no sepa¬ 
rate deals with any individual 
unions.” 

However, it is the attitude 


of Ford chiefs in Europe and 
the United States who au¬ 
thorize investment that may 
eventually have the greatest 
say in the dispute. 

Mr Hougham said: “A ma¬ 
jor consultation is what this 
dispute _ does to Britain's 
credibility as a car manufac¬ 
turer. It affects the attitude of 
people who make investment 
decisions” — meaning Ford 
executives in Britain, Europe 
and at the company's head¬ 
quarters in America. 


Flooding forecast to hit the South today 


Continued from page 1 
happened to them or the boat Divers 
have been down to the spot where the 
crab pots were but have found nothing.” 

The Government and the European 
Commission are providing more cash for 
repairs. The EC is adding £200.000 to the 
£600,000 it has already donated from a 
disaster fund of £2.4 million and the 
Government is to activate an emergency 


fund to help councils dear flood damage 
in the Severn Valley. Mr David Hunt, 
Minister for Local Government and 
Inner Cities, said he was “dismayed" by 
what he saw in Gloucestershire. 


However, Lord Sanderson of Bowden, 
the Minister of State at the Scottish 
Office, told Scottish MPS that there 
would be do short-term financial aid for 
domestic repairs for families with dam¬ 


aged homes. In Scotland all main foods 
were open but rail services iflthe 
Highlands were disrupted. 

In England water was still Mocking the^ 
east-bound carriageway of the A303east 
of Andover in Hampshire. Cookham, 
Berkshire, was cut off 

Police in Southampton interviewed 
three roofers over allegations of card-" 
board tiles. 


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possible on some southern or western coasts. Extreme north 
England, and Northern Ireland, will be rainy with dry spells. 
Scotland should be bright but with a few showers and with 
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Outlook: Still unsettled; many areas brighter, colder on Friday. 


ABROAD 


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1 Stop first man joining the May¬ 
flower (8). 

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10 No end of room on this farm (4). 

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small light in front of shipping 
hazards (5.3,4). 

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hurry (6). 

14 Nettle appears to cause skin re¬ 
action (8). 

15 Strange Scottish hut, dilapidated 
and rough (7). 

16 Heavy mass of mineral in explo¬ 
sion (7). 

20 Together, hold all types of legal 
proceeding (8). 

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23 Held counters arranged in 
combinations (12). 


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WORD-WATCHING 

A daily safari through the 
language jungle. Which of (he 
possible definitions is correct? 
By Philip Howard 

MALM 

a. An aromatic resin 

b. A respectf ul address 

c. Brick-builders’ loam 
FRETT 

a. An ooen 

b. Dutch whitebait 

c. A free burgher 
HCTOPONOPQNO 

a. Japanese kite-flying 

b. Talking diiap over 

t Semolina and coconut slew 
SEKOS 

a. A phalanx shield 

b. A sacred radotvt 

c A barren fi* tree 

Answers on page 20 


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Market report, page 24 

Shares on 
the slide 

- Share prices on both sides of 
the Atlantic slid yesterday as 
investors worried about this 
week's US bond auction. 

An early 25-point Dow 
Jones fell saw the FT-SE 100 
close down 273 at 2,321.1. 
Dealers fear the market may 
test the 2,300 level today. 

Market report, page 24 
Wall Street, page 26 

Aaronson falls 

Aaronson Bros, hit by poor 
conditions in DIY and home 
improvement, saw pre-tax 
profits slump from £5.82 mil¬ 
lion to £2.12 million in the 
year to September. The final 
dividend frills from 3.95p to 
J.7p. 

Tempos, page 24 

Securicor rises 

Securicor group profits surged 
from £27.3 million to £38.2 
million for the year to end- 
September. A final dividend 
of 1.076p lifts the total to 
1.5l6p, 17 per cent up. 

Tempos, page 24 


Pay increases slowing to 8.1%, says CBI 


By Colin Narbroogfc 

and Sara Parkhoase 

A first ray of hope of improvement 
on the pay front has emerged from 
Confederation of British Industry 
figures which showed growth in 
Settlements in «lmuu 

ing slightly at the end of last year. 

The Pay Databank survey re¬ 
ported provisional average settle¬ 
ments in wiann frrhui n g St an 
esti mate d 8.1 per cent in the fourth 
Quarter—down 0.1 of a percentage 
point from the previous Quarter. 

The CBI, which h« rep eatedl y 
ap peal ed to employers not to allow 
a return to the “ going rate” 


mentality, said downward pres¬ 
sures on pay settlements in manu¬ 
facturing were strengthening. 

The survey identified a wide 
range of settlements with firms 
reaching deals according to their 
own economic circumstances. 

Alarm about pay was triggered 
by 10 per cent-plus deals in the 
motor industry, most publicly at 
Ford, which were expected to set a 
trend- The easing of manufacturing 
settlements left deals still well 
above the 7.6 per cent seen in the 
second quarter and 6.9 percent in 
the final quarter of 1988. 

While manufacturing appeared 
to have started to rein back on pay. 


other CBI data show average 
settlements in the private sector 
service industries rising to 9.3 per 
cent in the second half of last year 
from 8.6 per cent in the first half 

Mr Bill Martin, chief economist 
at Phillips & Drew, described the 
manufacturing pay figures as “ten¬ 
tative good news.” P&D’s own 
statistics, however, have settle¬ 
ments for the whole economy 
rising by more than 9 per cent in 
the final quarter, and still growing. 

Mr Martin saw the non-trading 
sector as the “Achilles’bed” of pay 
developments, as they t hmateneri 
to offset wholly any improvement 
in pay growth in nwnn&phiring 


With productivity declining as the 
economy slows, be saw the prob¬ 
lem of rising unit labour costs still 
needing to be resolved. 

The CBI reported manufacturing 
productivity growth in the final 
quarter slowing to a provisional 63 
per cent compared to a year earlier, 
witb expectations of onty 5 per cent 
over this year. This was sharply 
down from the 73 per cent year- 
on-year rise for the third quarter. 

The survey identified com¬ 
panies’ inability to pay as tbe most 
strongly-felt factor. Poorer profits 
and declining productivity were 
also key factors. 

.Q mce la^t August, about a third 


of settlements have been between 
53 percent and 7.S per cent, while 
slightly less had been between 7.5 
per cent and 83 per cent. About 17 
per cent of deals were between 8.5 
percent and 93 percent. 

The CBI concluded that the 
wider spread of deals, combined 
with slower pay growth, amounted 
to “not spectacular improvements 
— but movements in right 
direction. 

Tbe “key task”, it said, was 
controffing unit labour costs. 

Jonathan Wren, London's larg¬ 
est headhunting firm, said City pay 
increases are below the national 
avera^ in the wake of rationaliza¬ 


tion in the domestic securities 
industry. The recruitment expert 
believes the brakes are now on. The 
going rate paid by employers has 
slowed down to 8.8 per cent from 
13.1 per cent a year ago. 

Wren said dais may wefl signal a 
period of relative wage depression 
in the City. 

The company said there is still 
widespread and strong recruitment 
demand because the average an¬ 
nual staff turnover in City institu¬ 
tions is at least 20 per cent But 
high salary increases are becoming 
much more localized, in particular 
for VDU operators and systems 
personnel. 


Regalian offer 
of half share 
to flat buyers 


Lawson to spearhead financial services drive 



Regalian, the biggest res¬ 
idential developer in 
Docklands, will today 
offer the bulk of its un¬ 
sold London and South of 
England flats on a 50:50 
shared-ownership bads. 

Under a scheme drawn up 
by Mr David Goldstone, 
Regalian’s chair man, buyers 
will get the cbance to buy a 
half stake in a flat, with 

Re galian m tamfng thff i wimin. 

ing half for five years. 

It is understood that about 
600 flats are likely to be 
offered under the scheme, 
with a lull market value of 
£180 million. 

The scheme is certain to 
revitalize interest in Regalian 
flats but it could undermine 
the efforts of rival residential 
developers, still hoping to sell 
100 per cent of their p rop ert ie s 
into a market showing only 
shaky signs of recovery. 

Last November, at tbe time 
of the results, Mr Goldstone 
admitted the London resi¬ 
dential market had dis¬ 
appeared. In Docklands, 
where the company has two 
substantial developments at 
Free Trade Wharf and Quay 
430 worth together more than 
£60 million, Mr Goldstone 
said fewer than 10 flats had 
been sold in six months. 
However, he is now thought to 
believe that the market — in 
London — has turned the 
corner. 

The Regalian scheme fol¬ 
lows in the successful wake of 
one recently launched by 


By Matthew Bond 

Fairdough Homes, tbe AMEC 
subsidiary. To sell its flats on 
the Isle of Dogs and in 
Rotherhithe, Fairclough 
teamed up with the Abbey 
National and Cheltenham & 
Gloucester building societies 
to offer buyers mortgages on 
half a flat. With £430,000 
penthouse flats suddenly 
available for £215,000 the 
result was a seU-ouL 

Mr Goldstone will be hop¬ 
ing for similar success with his 
50:50 purchase plan, a num¬ 
ber of building societies have 
indicated their willingness to 
provide mortgage finance for 
prospective purchasers. 

Once the half-share in the 
flat has been acquired the 
owner win have an annual 
opportunity to increase his or 
her original 50 per cent stake. 
But further purchases win 
have to be of at least one-fifth 
of the remaining balance. The 
value of the fiat will be 
determined by an indepen¬ 
dent valuer. 

The scheme is expected to . 
last five years. At the end of 
year five the half-owner has a 
final option to buy the out¬ 
standing balance: If that op¬ 
tion is declined the fiat will be 
sold with tbe half-owner and 
Regalian dividing any profit. 
Similarly if people move be¬ 
fore the five-year period, any 
profit win be divided between 
the two partners. 

The buflding societies back¬ 
ing the scheme are expected to 
lend money at prudent mul¬ 
tiples to current salary, to give 
the buyer every chance of 


affording the balance in five 
years. But there is a risk that if 
the property market takes off 
again some buyers will have to 
settle for making a profit on 
their half share and moving 
elsewhere because of tbe cost 
of acquiring the re maining 50 
per cent In addition the 
scheme is not aimed at those 
who would be unable to afford 
a flat otherwise: 

The most expensive fiats to 
be offered under the scheme 
are in Chelsea, where a half 
share in a flat win cost up to 
£304,000. A two-bedroom flat 
in the Chelsea scheme. Crown 
Lodge, will cost £150,000 on! 
the half-share hask, 

One of the best-known 
developments to be offered 
under the scheme is Florin 
Court in Charterhouse 
Square, dose to tbe City. In 
recent Sunday evenings the 
block has become famous as 
the home of the television 
detective Hercule Poirot 
Would-be Poirots could pay as 
little as £41,000 for half a 
studio flat. 

But it is the backlog of 
Docklands fiats that the 
scheme is aimed at revital¬ 
izing. At Free Trade Whar£ 
complete with swimming pool 
and gym, flats — or rather a 
half share in them — will cost 
between £73,000 to £212,000. 
While at Quay 430 in 
Wapping flats w£D cost be¬ 
tween £55,000 to £160,000. 

At the time of the last 
results Regalian had almost 
£75 million of debt on its 
balance sheet 



Expansion without expense: Maarice Foley, president of GPA, which reported £179 million profit for nine months yesterday 

GPA Slants 25% of new planes' 


By Rnlmn Sc ujtft, Wnnwal F^ftnr 


The recruitment of Mr Nigel 
Lawson as a non-executive 
director of GPA is part of a 
development and oepansian 
plan to keep the rapid growth 
of the aircraft leasing group, 
founded by Dr Tony Ryan in 
1975, going strong through the 

Mr Maurice Foley, presi¬ 
dent of GPA said that GPA 
Financial, the new holding 
company for specialist ser¬ 
vices that Mr Lawson win 
chair, intends to expand its 
business in securitization of 
aircraft and aircraft leases 
managed by GPA as a way of 
expanding use of its expertise 
without requiring internal fi¬ 
nance. Mr Lawson’s contacts 


and knowledge of financial 
markets will come in handy. 

GPA’s profits for the nine 
months to December—which 
are accounted in dollars, the 
currency of the aircraft in¬ 
dustry — rose by 63 per cent to 
$179 million (£105.1 million) 
on revenue up 72 per cent at 
$1.25 billion. No tax is 
payable. 

Shareholders’funds, owned 
almost equally by financial 
groups and airlines in Europe 
(mefoding Dr Ryan’s 8 per 
cent), Japan and North Amer¬ 
ica, grew by two-thirds to $884 
milli on and the book value of 
aircraft and leases managed by 
GPA Group and its affiliates 
rose to $3.6 billion- NCB, the 


Dublin broker, forecast $235 
million profit for the fuf' ~ar 
to March. 

Mr Foley said the results 
show that GPA can grow 
rapidly within a controlled 
financial framework and is 
reaping the rewards of order¬ 
ing new aircraft heavily in the 
mid-eighties and adding on 
financial services. 

GPA has placed orders 
totalling $30 billion for air¬ 
craft up to 1994 in order to 
maintain its share of the world 
new aircraft leasing market, 
already more than 40 per cent 
“We want to buy about 25 per 
cent of the aircraft being built” 
said Mr Foley. 

It is arranging to increase a 


syndicated eight-year bank 
loan facility by $900 million to 
$2.4 billion to make good the 
funds it has already drawn. Its 
borrowings are stiD only 1.7 
times shareholders’ funds, as 
it sells on aircraft and leases to 
keep the average age of its fleet 
of more than 225 aircraft 
down to less than four years. 

These sales account for 
more than a third ofof profits. 
By 1992, GPA will be taking 
delivery of nearly two aircraft 
a week, most of them twin- 
engined jets. But by develop¬ 
ing securitization on the 
pattern of mortgages, It sees 
no need for unannounced new 
equity (or a stock market 
quotation) for three years. 


Conran to close 
fashion chain 


By Gillian Bowditch 


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Storehouse, tbe retail group 
headed by Sir Terence 
Conran, is dosing Anony¬ 
mous, its fashion chain for 
women from 18 to 30. 

About 140 jobs are at risk, 
although a gnull number of 
Anonymous staff may be of¬ 
fered reemployment. 

Anonymous trades from 27 
outlets, the majority of which 
are within British Home 
Stores, Storehouse’s depart¬ 
ment store. 

Tbe decision to dose Them 
is a result of Mr David 
Dworkin’s appointment as 
chairman and chief executive 
of BhS. Mr Dwodtin has 
reviewed the use of space 
within BhS and has dedded 
the Anonymous outlets could 
be better used. 

Five stand-alone shops in 
Hammersmith, Kingston, 
Croydon, and Oxford 


win also dose: No decision 
has been made as to whether 
staff these will be redeployed. 1 

The chain win finally fold in 

the early summer, at a cost 
which has not been revealed. 

The group said there had 
been no decision to dose any 
Of the Other fashion chains 
such as Richards, Blazer or 
Jacadi, but added the group’s 
main emphaas would be on 
its three main divisions, BhS, 
Mothercare and Habitat 

Anonymous was formed in 
1987 after the closure of the 

NOW tsanag p fashio n chain. 

Its closure has come as a 
surprise to many in die Gty 
who believed the concept to be 
a good one, achieving high 
sales (tensities. 

Anonymous was expected 
to contribute a small profit to 
the group this year; for the 
third year running. 


Argentine airline 
invites BA stake 

From Harvey ElEott, Air Correspondent, Buenos Aires 

British Airways is to be sent a Scandinavian carrier SAS of- 
detailed offer document, with- fared to buy a 40 per cent stake 
in the next few days, giving it for about $200 million, 
the opportunity to take a large Lord King was cautious 

inth e Aigentme nat- about the opportunities for a 
tonal amine Aerolmas Aigen- faff-scale inves tmen t: “We 
ttttas. win see if there is anything in 

The document is in the final this for us and obviously study, 
stages of preparation and win the offer in detail.” The airline 
be sent to banks and airlines has until June to respond, 
around the worid as part of a it is highly unlikely, how- 
dnye to privatize Argentina’s ever, that it will pump money 
main indust rie s. into an airline which has 

President Carlos Menem of massive debts, a very old fleet 
Argentina told Lord King of and isseven times overstaffed. 
Wartnaby, the BA chairman. One of the «rKw« which 
that the airline would be open could be in terested, however, 
to offers from any foreign is Alitalia, the Italian national 
investor but that no limit had airline, and SAS wiD almost 
so far been placed on tiie stake certainly malm another bid. 
any foragn country could BA is ready to provide 
hold in the airline. expertise in the drive towards 

privatization and may seek 
marketing links to help the 
aidine to develop. 

Comment, page 25 


Last year Aerolmas Argenti¬ 
nes was valued by the World 
Bank at more than $500 
million (£293 million) and the 





Barons may be switching to UK after being driven from US 


Drug laundering at building societies 


By Lindsay Cook 
Family Money Editor 

Drug dealers may be nsiig building 
society brandies to launder drugs money 
after driven out of America, 

according to an article in this month’s 
newsletter of the Council of Marlga^ 
Lenders. 

In the past, many building societies 
have not thought it necessary to check on 
the bona tides of those opening and 


ODClomi 6 -.7 -— - 

Building Societies Commission sent a 
prudential note to societies last year, 
advising them to take greater care when 
opening new accounts. The note, which 
^ not published at tire time, warned 
that tough action was needed to stop 
criminal money-la unde ring. 

The commission painted oat: “In the 
past, many societies have not thought it 
nccesessary to check on the bona fides of 
those opening and operating ’passbook’ 


accounts, in contrast to the practice of 
banks in respect of those operating 
current accounts.” 

This had ted to criticism from banks 
about the laxness of building society 
procedures, which allowed fraudsters 
and other criminals to open accounts, 
without providing evidence of identity, 
and then cash stolen cfap pi c s. 

The commission told societies that the 
distinction between and building 


that all lending and savings institutions 
are vulnerable to.” Detective Sergeant 
Martin Battle of Leicestershire Financial 
Investigation department said: “The 
crackdown on money laundering which 
hac pilmn place in the United Slates 
meant that some drug dealers are now 
targeting the UK.” 

The sergeant, who has studied tbe 
subject, continued: “AH financial institu¬ 
tions in the UK must realize that they are 


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was evidence of criminals using building 
society accounts. 

The introduction of automatic teller 
machine networks have also made it 
possible for extortionists to demand that 
companies pay money into card-based 
accounts, which could be withdrawn 
from any one of a large number of cash 
dispensers. 

Tbe article points out that mosey 
laundering is “josi one of many frauds 


than at any time before. This mil occur 
both from the outside influences where 
large sums of money may be laundered, 
and also from criminals who may be 
involved in drug dealing in the UK.” 

Societies need to meet the require¬ 
ments of the Drug Trafficking Offences 
Act 1986, the Criminal Justice Act 1988 
and the Prevention of Terrorism fTem- 
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Poor reception on Securicor’s line 


Mobile telephones should 
have no wires, but the market 
appears to have found some to 
cross at Securicor, 40 percent- 
owner of CeUnet Its results 
were badly out ofline with an¬ 
alysts’ expectations and were 
not accompanied by news of 
any immine nt divestment, as 
dealers had been hoping. 

lifce motorists whose con¬ 
centration has been compro¬ 
mised by the introduction of 
the personal phone, Securic¬ 
or’s followers, entranced by 
CeUnet’s potential, appear to 
have taken an eye off the road. 

While Gellnet came close to 
matching the £20 million con¬ 
tribution predicted for it early 
last year, chief executive 
Roger Wiggs saw core bnst- 
nesses sag. The parcels oper¬ 
ation simply failed to exper¬ 
ience its traditional boom in 
August and September. 

Securicor stores, highlight¬ 
ed as one of die top 10 pear- 
formers of the E i g h ties , 
promptly fed below 800p, 
dragging the p/e multiple be¬ 
low SO. They had been 
particularly strong of late on 
Cdlnet sale talk, which was 
firmly quashed by the com¬ 
pany yesterday. 

By virtue of its slightly 
lower market share and 
significantly higher early dev¬ 
elopment costs, Cfcllnet has 
taken a good year longer to 
yield a return than Racal’s 
Vodafone, but should now 
provide Securicor with 40 per 
cent compound growth over 
the next five years. 

It wiO need some sanity to 


Eagle cuts 
bank debt 
by another 
£8.5m 

By Jeremy Andrews 

Mr David James, the chair¬ 
man of Eagle Trust, the en¬ 
gineering and film camera hire 
group, has made further 
progres s in reducing the £99 
million of bank borrowings 
which he found when he took 
over in September. 

Last week, foe company 
received the first instalment of 
£4.25 million from the admin¬ 
istrators of MCP Building 
Supplies, the builders' mer¬ 
chant subidiary which col¬ 
lapsed in August. 

Together with the £4.2 mil¬ 
lion realized from the sale of 
Grundy & Pilling, another 
buildere' merchant. Eagle 
raised a total of £8.5 million in 
January. 

Eagle has two Rolls-Royce 
cars used by former executives 
after the return by the Irish 
police of the vehicle run by Mr 
John Feniday, a former chair¬ 
man. 

The £60,000 car, which was 
found this week in Co Wick¬ 
low, will be cleaned up and 
sold, as has another Rolls- 
Royce used by a former 
managing director. 

Mr Feniday is the subject of 
an arrest warrant issued by the 
West Midlands Police in con¬ 
nection with the alleged theft 
of £13.5 million. 

Unlike the warrant issued 
for Mr Fern day’s arrest by 
Northampton County Court 
last September, the police 
warrant may be exercised in 
the Irish Republic, where Mr 
Feniday is believed to have 
hidden since his disappear¬ 
ance in May. 


return to the cellular phone re¬ 
tailing business, where tele¬ 
phones are virtually being giv¬ 
en away in the battle for sub¬ 
scriber bases/market share. In 
pushing its subscriber base to 
27,00% Securicor’s reed di¬ 
vision ran up a pre-tax loss of 
£3.6 million. 

It also assumes the group’s 
lorries carving out routes 
across Europe wiD begin carry¬ 
ing paydirt after 1992. 

Smith New Court looks for 
£68.9 million fob year, al¬ 
though a high, but falling, tax 
charge wfl] restrict cps to 3<L5, 
indicating a prosp ective p/e of 

more than 26 at 8Q3p. That 
would trot be nearly enough if 
only Securicor could find a 
way to unlock CeUneft foil 
value. 

Unitech 

Unitech's shares, at 378p, are 
almost exactly double what 
they were in 1988. In July that 
year. Uni tech found favour 
with a £50 million placing at 

above the ruling market price, 
which left Elec tro w a tt, die 
Swiss electronics group, with a 
29.9 per cent stake. But four 
months later, Unitech's rating 
was in the doldrums again 
after it splashed out S327 
minio n to boy Veeco, the 
world's largest manufacturer 
of power supplies for elec¬ 
tronic equipment 
The acquisition, coupled 
with the subsequent disposal 
of its original electronic 
component businesses for an 
overall £71 million, trans- 


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Sag m core 


Koger W|ggs sawSecnricort pared operation boom firil to materialize 


formed Unftedh. It ceased to 
be a distributor, dependent on 
Britain and continental Eu¬ 
rope. At a stroke, the US 
became its biggest market and 
Unitech became the large* 
man u fartn rer of p owe r sup¬ 
plies in Japan. 

Analysts thought dfltxtian 
would be inevitable, given 
that Unitech paid 22 timwi 
earnings for Veeco. They seem 
to have been proved right, as 
gaming s in the six months to 
November fell 4 per cent to 
8.7p, despite a 57 percent rise 
in pre-tax profits to £1Z3 

mflhoiL 


However, the market’s will¬ 
ingness to look beyond the 
next set of figures has been 
much more evident mw Dr 
Tito Tettamanti, the Swiss 
industrialist, arrived on Uni- 
tech's share register last year. 
After declaring a 6.4 per cent 
stake in April, he befit his 
bedding to 17.2 per cent by 
November. 

Were Dr Tettamanti to join 
forces with Electrowatt, be 
would only stand 3 per cent 
short of control, which goes a 
long way towards accounting 
for the complete rehabilitation 
of Unitech’s rating. With prof- 


STOCK MARKET 


its of £29 million wrmitig s 
of21.2p in the offing this year, 
the shares now reflect a de¬ 
manding prospective p/e ratio 

of 18. 

Electrowatt is free to bid or 
sell its shares in August and 
shareholders should hang on 
for developments. 

Aaronson 

Aaronson Bros looks in need 
of some DIY repairs on its 
profit and loss account after a 
year when pre-tax profits fell 
63 percent from £5.82 million 

10 £2.12 million and foe final 


dividend was slashed from 
3.95pto 1.7p a share. The final 
is lower than the interim, and 
leaves foe year's total divi¬ 
dend at 3.5p (5.75p). 

Though the slowdown in 
the DIY and home improve¬ 
ment market takes the lion’s 
share of the blame, plant 
reorganizations and relocation 
f! q«n«a have also taken their 
tOlL 

The setback was particu¬ 
larly notable in foe second 
half, when ApriJ-to-September 
pre-tax profits were a mere 
£709,000. 

Aaronson admi ts that turn¬ 
over in the first quarter of the 
current year remained weak, 
although it Insists that it was 
better than the last quarter of 
the 1989 financial year, and 
that the underlying trend is 
improving. 

The group is cagey about 
whether there have been any 
loss-making quarters. 

A property revaluation 
gives the group a net worth of 

7Sp a share, against 66p a year 

ago, but gearing is 62 per cent 
and interest cover a thin 2.5 
times. While cutting costs 
should make an impact, as 
would a stronger advance in 
Europe, the group needs a 
healthy consumer climate at 
home before profits climb 
with any real strength. Thus, 
not much more than £2.3 
million pre-tax is expected 
this year, and dividend 
restoration is some way off 

At ?0p, on a rating of 14.9 
times, the shares are looking 
well ahead of themselves. 


Growth warning trims food shares 


business roundup 


More O’Ferrall profit 
forecast hit by storms 

More OTerralL the outdoor advertising contractor, has 
goffered a £1 million profits downgrading after last week's 
sales in Britain and France. Barclays de Zoete Wedd, the 
broker, has cut its forecast for the year toend-Deceraber from. 
£ 14.5 million to £13-5 nuUk®- The Adshel and Olmniaated 
So perlite panels division reported pre-tax profits of £9.52 
million in 1988 and is expected next month to torn m-£lZ5 
milli on for 1989* 

More O’Ferrall, which said the natter did aotalter its 
projections, told analysts the loss of revenae from missing or- 
destroyed boardings will be about £250,000, while £500,000 
wOl be spent on repairs. BZW said it had downgraded Mote 
O’Ferrall a farther £250^000 because of weakness In the 
British television advertising market, where the cost of 
advertising wOl be down by about IS per cent in Febr ua ry. 

Brompton in Micklegate’s 
£9m sales £1.3m interim 

Br o mpto n Holdings will Micklegate, foe Yorkshire 
raise more than £9 Bullion property developer, has an- 
throagh disposal of its mm- notmeed its first interim re- 
core tetecommmncatioas and salts since joining the USM, 
manpower businesses to shewing £lj mfa pretax 
their present managem ents, profits on £4.7 mBHon tin- 
Negotiations are at an ad- over in the six months to rad- 
vanced stage. The proceeds October, against £176,000 
will be applied to Bromp- profits last rime. No i n terim 
ton’s cme safety, in spe cti on dividend is bring paid on 
and testing interests, after £7 earning per share of 524p. 
million worth of borrowings Shares have fallen from a 
are paid oft listed 75p to 68p. 

Korea fund launched 

Tyndall Investment Management, The Lucky Securities Co, 
a Korean investment management company, and Citicorp 
Scrimgeanr Vickers, the broker, are baching a $60 million 
(£35.2 million) had investing in Korea. 

The Korea Liberalisatiofli Fond, a d ose- en ded company 
incorporated i n the Cayman fslaak, will invest in Korean 
companies, eqnty-rebted issues and approved foods. 
Dealings in the 6 million new shares and U million related 
warrants should start an March 15. Mr Jim Mellon, a 
director of Tyndall, said government liberalization should 
help to give long-term investors exciting opportunities. 

Stadex sold Heiton soars 

for £ 1.28m to £885,000 


Shares of the leading food 
manufacturers were beating a 
hasty retreat last night after 
Smith New Court, the securi¬ 
ties house, issued a warning to 
clients that most of th*™ 
would find foe going tough in 
199a 

Traditionally, food manu¬ 
facturers and retailers are 
regarded as a haven for inves¬ 
tors in times of recession, but 
it looks as though they could 
be struggling this time around. 
Smith's food iwm has re¬ 
duced its of prospec¬ 

tive earnings growth for tire 
sector from 10 per cent to 8 
per cent. It says most of them 
will find it difficult to improve 
margins after a slow start to 
the year. Mr Timothy Potter, 
an analyst at Smith, sakt “We 
have done a potato-peeling 
job on prospects. They will 
still show some resilience, but 
progress win be slower." 

He has reduced his profit 
estimates on most companies, 
including HQbdown, 3p lower 
at 262p, and Cadbnry 
Schweppes, lOp cheaper at 
343p. 

Unigatr has had its forecast 
for 1990 downgraded by £10 
million to £100 mini on 
because of problems at its 
Wincanton wheels division. 
UBS Phillips & Drew, the 
broker, has also downgraded 
its estimate for Unigale, leav¬ 
ing the shares 8p lower at 
312p. 

The rest of the equity 
market spent a nervous ses¬ 
sion, with investors fl g pif i 
rooted firmly on the sidelines 
before this week’s US bond 
market auction. There have 
been increasing tears that the 
Japanese will give the auction 


By Michael Clark 


IMPORTANT NOTICE 


ELECTION OF ONE SPECIAL AND FOUR REGIONAL MEMBERS 
TO THE SULK MARKETING BOARD - »M 


The M& Mufa t hg Board berth* am 

I. The Board hare determined (be 
Tuesdiv. 31 }ah 1990. 


dale tar 1990 u mrdai g hi 


2. One Special Member of (be Bond and one Repaid Member for cadi of the 
N'oKbera. West-Mrifend. Nanh Wain aad Far-Western Rcpons have to be eiecttd 

3. The Board arc pr e pa red ro receive nomination* of cmdubia for these 
deawis. Such nornmitnw* man be recaved by (be Board at the Board's o£Sqb 
at Humes Dtnou. Surrey, not later (bn 4.00 p.ra. on Tuesday. 6 March 1990 

4. Etery person spoommaud as a candidate for elecbra as a Spccal or Regional 
Member of the Board must deposit wub the Secre tary ot (be Board oat later tbu 
4DC p.m. an Tuesday. ft Mareta 1990. (be sun of COO. 

5. No person shall be qualified to be elected as a Special Member of the Board 
unless be or she has been nommaird as a candidate either by icaokmoa of the 
Board or in writing by at least forty tegstered producer*. 

6. No petson shall be qualified to be elected a9 a Repoaal Member of die Board 
for an Engfash Repoa unless be or the hu been nommaxd m writing as a cancbdare 
by at leas twenty regam re d producers entitled K> we m tbn clecnou or by a 
COunty Branch of the NatKXuJ Farmers' Utnoc ta the Repon. 

7. No person shaS be qualified to be elected as a Reponal Member of the Board 
for a Webb Regain union he or she has been nommarrd m »rretg as a Candida ip 
by ar leas maty re gist ered producers entitled to vote tn that electron or by a 
County Branch of the National Fanners' L’nron ta the Region or by a County 
Branch of the Farmers' Union of Wales in the Repco. 

& A person may not be a ca ndi date for demon os a Special Member and as a 
Reposal M e mber 31 tbe 

9. A candidafo may withdraw from ha or her candi dature by a writxrn nonce 
to the effect provided it is delivered at the offices of the Board at Thames Ditton. 
Surrey, not laic than 4.00 p.cn on Tuesday. 13 Man* 1W.' 

10. Any cltCtXM literature batted by or OB behalf of a candidate should bear tbe 
name and addins of the person iSHunj: it and (be name of the caadxbic dn whose 
behalf n a issued. 

NOTE: Candidates tn the Special Member elections Of which nonce » pren a 
the page tnav be interested to know that (he Board have agreed to offer coda 
properly pOflhWted candidate (if BTOre tbau one I the eppo™«*y for a I iWO ward 
electron address. p repare d by the candidate and reproduced by the Board.» be 
dtunbiaed with the voting papers to all producers at a con to each candrtmr 
of £300. 

Candidates in Regional Board Member demon? of which notice is green on lies 
pipe may be mteresed to know that Hie Board Have speed to offer each property 
Qwunwted candi d a te (in co n tes ted e l ec tron* I the oppmtumry tor a l .MW word 
demon address, prepared by the candidate and reproduced tn ihc Board, te be 
frs t iibu red with the noting papers to producers m the relevant Region, at a cow 
to each candidate of £100. 

Candidates who wiA to avail themsebres of these ro m ces mun sntwai a copy of 
the ejection address ro the Secretary of the Board at Thames Proem. Surrey, so 
that n and me iLk v aut fee are rec cr re d by her nor later (ban Monday. 2b March 
HNG. If advance notice of an mtcatxm to make use of die service be pw tt 
wiH be aditiiiriMiJiiwly mast helpful. 


a wide berth. As a result an 
opening 25-point fall on Wall 
Street added to the gloom in 
London, where prices dosed 
at the worst levels of the day. 
The FT-SE 100 index tell 27.3 
points to 2^21.1 in thin 
trading, which saw only 406 
million shares riany bands 
The market is expected to test 
the 2^00 level today. The 
narrower FT Index of 30 
shares dropped 25.4 to 
1,835.6. 

A stronger pound left Gov¬ 
ernment securities sporting 
gains of about £%. 

Sears, the Sdfiidges and 
Saxone stores to Freemans 
mail order group, held steady 
at lOOp amid heavy turnover 
of the shares. By the close of 
business, more than M mil¬ 
lion shares had been traded. 
Hoare Govett crossed a buyer 

United Newspapers, 
publisher of the Daily Express 
and the Sear, fell 6p to 
404p. A pared of 2JS mfiUon 
shares has been placed 
jointly by Cazenove and UBS 
Phillips & Drew, the 
stockbrokers, at about 400p. 
Mr Conrad Blade, 
publisher of the Daily 
Telegraph, owns 9 per cent 

with a seller of 3 million 
shares. 

The group recently an¬ 
nounced plans for a restruc¬ 
turing of its footwear business, 
while admitting it was the 
holder of 2 per cent of rival 
Next. 

Carlton Communications, 
the film and television ser¬ 
vices group, fell I9p to 773p, 
with dealers talking about a 
“seir recommendation from 


Laing stake 
sold by 
Marwan 

Dr Ashraf Marwan, the Egyp¬ 
tian financier, was among 
those who sold out in Mon¬ 
day’s dawn raid mounted by 
the Chdsfield/P&O consort¬ 
ium on Laing Properties. 

Dr Marwan, sold a 1.5 per 
cent stake in Laing at 650p a 
share, tbe level of the concert 
party's £441 million cash bid. 

EDI growth 

Continued growth in the mar¬ 
ket for Electronic Data Inter¬ 
change services, systems that 
allow rapid, paperless, trans¬ 
actions between firms, is fore¬ 
seen in a survey of The Times 
top 100 companies by KPMG 
Peat Marwick McLimock. the 
accountant, and foe European 
School of Management. 

Royal host 

The Prince of Wales is to host 
a two-day meeting of more 
than 100 business leaders and 
entrepreneurs from Europe, 
North America and foe Pacific 
in Charleston. South Carolina, 
during his visit to the United 
Stales from February 16 to 23. 

Casket buy 

One of the most famous 
names in the British bicycle 
industry will be back within 
foe next two months after the 
£182.500 purchase of British 
Eagle Cycles by Casket, the 
Manchester textiles group. 

Scotch exports 

Expons of Scotch whisky 
earned more than £1.46 bil¬ 
lion last year, an increase ofl 4 
per cent over 1988 and a 
record for Scotland’s largest 
net export earner. 


Share price 


BLUE CIRCLE: 
POOR PROSPECT 
SHORT-TERM 


FTAalttare 
price index 

(Rebased) 


Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Feb 


Kleinwort Benson, the broker, 
expected today. Carlton has 
been giving a number of 
prese nt a t ions to Japanese 
investors. 

Grand Metropolitan, the 
hotel and drinks group, firmed 
Ittp to 599ttp on the news 
that it is has sold port its 
Wimpy restaurant chain to a 
management consortium. 

Bine Circle Industries eased 
6p to 229p after a lowering of 
estimates by Smith New 
Court. The broker is still 
looking for pre-tax profits of 
about £233 million for tbe 
current year to April 30, but 
has reduced its estimate for 
1991 by £8 million to £237 
million. It Names the dra¬ 
matic rise in foe interest 
charge in the wake of its £197 
million acquisition of Myson, 
rising costs, a disappointing 
performance by the cement 
and home products division 
and its American operation. 

Smith says there are few 
short-term attractions for Blue 
Circle, but calculates that at 
about 220p, foe price is 
backed by an attractive 6.5 per 


cent yield, winch would pre¬ 
vent any sustained slide. 

Securigaard Group slipped 
lp to 286p after lifting pre-tax 
profits from £3.2 million to 
£6.2 million. Mr Alan Bal¬ 
dwin, the chairman, said be is 
on the lookout for suitable 

Costain Group fell lip to 
288p after a downgrading of 
1990 estimates by Hoare 
Govett, the broker, of £10 
million to £90 ntillion. 

Hoare is worried by the 
performance of tbe group’s 
property division. Costain’s 
high gearing levels and 
honsebmUing division also 
give caase for concern. _ 

acquisitions and forecasts 
another year of growth. An¬ 
alysts are forecasting pre-tax 
profits of about £9.5 million in 
the current year. 

Securicor Group A shares 
dropped 18p to 793p after 
announcing foil-year figures 
below expectations, but later 
rallied to 8Q3p. Pre-tax profits 
rose from £28.3 million to 
£38.24 million, almost en¬ 
tirely due to a first-time 


contribution from the Cdlnet 
Radio Network. 

Security Services, its asso¬ 
ciate, fell 18p to 683p on 
profits news. 

British Telecom, which 
owns the remaining 60 per 
cent of Cdlnet, fell 6p to 303p. 
The group’s third-quarter fig¬ 
ures, out tomorrow, are ex¬ 
pected to show a 10 per cent 
rise in pre-tax profits. 

Cable and Wireless ran out 
of steam after a firm start, 
finishing lp lower at 536p. 
Dealers said this coincided 
with a meeting between the 
company and SG Warburg, 
the sto ck brok er . The market is 
still awaiting details of the 
proposed sale of part of its 
Hong Kong Telecom sub¬ 
sidiary. 

Laing Properties firmed 5p 
to 658p in response to the 
unwanted £441 million bid 
from P&O and Chdsfidd, the 
private property company. 
P&O slipped 8p to 598p on 
further reflection on its latest 
move. 

Meanwhile, Rosehangh 
continued to lose ground, 
tumbling another 32p to 338p 
in the wake of its heavily- 
discounted £125 million rights 
issue. 

It also had an impact on 
other property companies, 
with losses seen in British 
Land, 7p to 39lp, Clayform, 
4p to 217p, Great Portland, 4p 
at 299p. Hammeraon. lOp to 
815p, Markbeath. Sp to 71p. 
Peel Holdings, lOp to 218p, 
Priest Martens, 32p to 188p, 
and Sough Estates. 3p to 
307p, _ 

Wall Street report and 
prices on page 26 


BTP, the specialist chemical 
and industrial group, has 
expanded its Mydrin textile 
coatin g s and adhesive busi¬ 
ness tfaroagfa the acquisition 
of Stadex Industries for 
£1^8 adOioa. Stadex makes 
hot meit adhesives, which 
are applied molten: one of 
the fastest growing sec tors in 
the market. This is BTP*s 
fifth adhesives aqrisitian In 
the test 18 months. 


Pre-tax profits at Heiton 
Holdings, the Irish steel 
stockholders, ImOder** mer¬ 
chant and DIY group, rose 
91 per cot tn Ir£943JXM 
(£885,000) te the six months 
to end-October. Group tarn- 
over advanced 282> per cent 
to Ir£284 million. Earrings 
per share rose 28 per cent to 
lr3.64p. The i n te r im divi¬ 
dend grew to IrO^Sp, against 
Ii0.5p last time. 


Sandell profit tumbles 

The latest casualty of the downtarn in the prop e r ty marketis 

SbwUII Group, t<M» lyfftw fitting and fgftn- htuhiwpwt ww i]wny 

which came tn the USM just over a year ago. The shares- 
slippcd 7p to 114p, against a placing price of 117p, on news 
that pre-tax p ro fit s for the year to ead-September fell from 
£306,000 to £76,000. 

The company said that the purchase of the Sandell 
Interlock business during foe year had led to losses fooe, 
■rising both from start-up costs and from one bad c on tract 
that had been taken on by the previous ma nag emen t . This last 
Item was reflected in an exceptional debit of £270,000. 


BAT puts revenue 
of Saks at $1.3bn 

From James Btme, New York 


BAT Industries has sent out 
prospectuses for the sale of its 
Saks Fifth Avenue depart¬ 
ment stores showing that the 
46-shop chain had 1989 rev¬ 
enue of about $1.3 billion 
(£763 million) and earned 
$111 million before interest 
and taxes. 

Tbe British tobacco con¬ 
glomerate is selling Saks, as 
well as its Marshall Field's. 
Ivey’s and Breuners retail 
divisions, as part of its defence 
against a hostile takeover bid 
by Sir James Goldsmith’s 
Hoyiake Investments. 

Prospectuses for Ivey’s and 
Breuners were sent out in 


Norsk Data falls further into red 


*»*»> r r -‘- 


> 


By Martin Waller 

Norsk Data, the troubled role as a high-volume com- 



computcr manufacturer, 
edged further into foe red 
during calendar 1989, wjfo 
operating losses increased 
from NKr335 million to 
NKr360 million (£32.8 mil¬ 
lion). 

The company, just three 


puicr manufacturer into the 
added-vaiue area of providing 
total computer systems and 
working more closely with its 
eventual customers. 

The cost of reorganization 
in 1988 totalled NKr639 mil¬ 
lion and boosted pre-tax losses 


years ago foe pride and joy of to NKr965 million. 

^ A sur Plus of NKr25 million 

not pajnngadividand. Cron, property sales, after in- 

But Mr Tor Alfhcim. the tercst and currency charges of 
senior vice-president for tech- NKr59 million, meant pre-tax 
noJogy and business dev- losses of NKr394 million for 
dopment, pointed to an 1989. 

^JSSSTbs^SSL 

M fir.» - “S 


The company worldwide 
now employs 2.700 people. 


’I m prov em ent in foe second half: Tor Alfheim yesterday 


NKr2l4 million to NKrl46 
million. 

The positive results of the 
restructuring implemented 
last year were only now being 
seen. 

Norsk Data has shifted its 
activities from its traditional 


after heavy restructuring, 
against a total of 4,200 at foe 
end of 1988. 

Total borrowings have been 
cut from NKr2.8 billion to 
NKrl.5 million, and against 
this the company has cash and 
short-term deposits totalling 
NKi900 million. 8 


December. Marshall Field’s 
i prospectuses are expected to 
be posted this week. 

Several US retailers are 
thought to be interested in 
acquiring new stores, but may 
prefer to buy more cheaply a 
troubled chain or one with a 
strong regional presence 
rather than a strong national 
concern such as Sah, 

Among those to have eat 
pressed an interest in Sals are 
Nieman-Marcus Group and; 
Mr Melvin Jacobs, Saks chair* 
m a n , who has said he may 
lead a leveraged buyout May 
Department Stores is abo 
considered a possible bidden 


ECGDto 

abandon 

schedules 

By Colin Narbroogh 
The Export Credits Guarantee 
Department plans in the com¬ 
ing fiscal year to abandon its 
premium schedules for under- - 
writing medium- and long¬ 
term sovereign risk, and to . . 
charge exporters on an in¬ 
dividual basis 
The move to a more mar¬ 
ket-oriented premium system 
comes as tbe ECGD prepares 
for the privatization next year 
of ilS short-term inoimnm . 
services arm. It also reflects 
foe imperative to move away 
from hidden subsidy to ex¬ 
ports as 1992 approaches. 

Mr Malcolm Stephens, the ' 
ECGD chief executive, said 
foe new methods for manag¬ 
ing foe political risk portfolio 
were designed to reduce future 
losse s by discriminating more 
precisely between different 
risk categories. 


Dominion dismissed ‘critical’ adviser 


By Martin WaDer 

As long ago as 1986, at least 
two oftbe financial advisers of 
Dominion International 
Group, the crashed financial 


cr ivi uivi ij i uu uj 

Mr Max Lewmsohn. gave 
warning about foe treatment 
of profits from latex, the trou¬ 
bled Bermuda-based business. 

Bui Mr Lewinsohn appears 
to have countered crincism 
about £1.4 million contrib¬ 
uted to his profit and loss 
account by Intex by dismiss 
mg Samuel Montagu, foe 


dissenting merchant bank, 
and disregarding the advice of 
Arthur Andersen, foe in¬ 
dependent auditor. 

The £1.4 million came from 

ihp cslp nf warrants in Inin 


which was set up to pul 
together an automated finan¬ 
cial futures exchange and in 
which Dominion has 27 per 
cent, to foe North Carolina 
National Bank. This was 
taken “above the line," boost¬ 
ing pre-tax profits in the year 
to end-March 1986 to £11.04 
million, despite the existence 
of options requiring Domin¬ 


ion to buy foe shares back if 
the Intex share price fclL 
Binder Hamlyn, foe then 
auditor which was sub¬ 
sequently dismissed by Mr 

[ i’wilKnhn nnariivt (hw* 


profits, but was forced to rely 
on assurances that foe options 
would never be triggered. 

Mr Chris Swinsoo. now foe 
national managing partner at 
Binder, said: “We obtained 
the assurances wg believed we 
needed. Wc wouldn’t have 
signed (the accounts) if we 
hadn't been happy at the 
time." But he refused to give 


details about foe assurances. 

Samuel Montagu armed on 
foe scene shortly afterwards, 
advising on foe purchase of 
TransationaL an American 


Dominion. It is thought it also 
queried foe intex deal. Ander¬ 
sen was brought in as an 
independent auditor to exam¬ 
ine the situation. 

Mr Lewinsohn has claimed 
Andersen was happy about the 
treatment of the Intex warr¬ 
ants. This is denied by Mr Ray 
Hinton, a partner at Andersen 
who said yesterday: "We deny 


ihat we endorsed that v» 
Andersen's findings \ 
never published by D 
inion. Mr Lewinsohn , 
claimed that Laing & Cm 


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sfrosequentiy dismissed 
Dominion, concurred with 
view. But Mr John South* 
a director, said: “it’s aln 
inconceivable that we wc 
lave said it was OK aga 
the advice of foe account! 
and merchant banks." 

Pncc Waterhouse was 
pointed administrator 
Dominion last month. 


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BUSINESS AND FINANCE 


COMMENT David Brewerton 


By CoKb Campbell, Mmi*g Corresponded 


shares top- 

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“^arong nses across the 

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for the gold once »tw 


731p, and Lonrine 30p up at 
309p. 

International sold shares 
were generally helped by the 
continued strength of the 
London gold price. Though it 
was weaker on its overnight 


investment arena when it 
became dear in January that 
political developments were 
afoot to release Nelson 
Mandela. 

London analysts said that 
international funds gild fresh 


risks that there could yet he 
political slips over die timing 
of the release of Nelson 
Mandela have been baying the 

SA market. 

However, it would be some 
time yet before companies 


SBJ 


Argentina opening her 
window of trade to UK 


Securiguard soars 93% 


at £123m 

By Jeremy Andrews 

Unitech, the wood’s largest 
man u fac turer of power sup- 



By Michael Tate 
Deputy City Editor 

Seewrtgmd, the security and 
in d u sm al rlfaniag services 
grasp, reported a 93 per cent 
surge in pte-tax profits m the 
year to November 5, 

The profits seared from £3£ 

j pflK^ |0 m mJlinn 

The company Is hoisting the 
dividend from &5p to 8p a 
share for the year, with a &2p 

UmI 

Turnover more chan danbhd 
to £104 million daring the 
period. 

Mr Alan Baldwin, the chair- 
man, said all the co m p an y’s 
dmsio&s made positive con¬ 
tribution^ with the deaamg 
and m a iatm a ace o per a tions 
reporting a 65 per cent organic 






GrandMet to sell 356 Wimpy outlets 


ByMefindmWittstock 

Grand Metropolitan, tile food 
and drinks group which is 
negotiating the swap of its 
breweries for public houses 
with Elders IXL, the Austra¬ 
lian brewer, is to sefl 216 of its 
Wimpy table service franchise 
restaurants in Britain plus 
another 140 mainly located 
throughout the continent to its 
management 

The buyout, beBeved to be 
mvtb about £20 nuDion 
though the tenon were not 
disclosed, comes six months 
after Mr Allen Sheppard’s 
GrandMet bought the Wimpy 
chain for £180 million from 


Sir Hector Laingfr Untied 
Biscuits. 

The remaining 195 prime 
location connter^ervice Wim- 
py restaur an ts in Britain, 
which include the 20 acquired 
for £13 million from Allied 
Leisure fast month, mU be 
converted into Burger King 
fast-food restaurants this year 
in a move to challenge the 
market leader, McDonald’s, 
said Mr Sheppard. 

GrandMet, which acquired 
Burger King and its 30 British 
outlets a year ago with its $5.8 
billion (£3.4 billion) acquisi¬ 
tion of Pfflsbuiy, the US food 
group, tvas transformed 35 
Wimpy franchises into Buiger 


King. Another 78, bringing the 
total to 143, have been 
committed to the changeover. 

Mr Sheppard said the 
Wimpy sties which had al¬ 
ready gone over to the Burger 
King brand were repenting 
average 15 per cent increases 
in sales volume, with the 
Piccadilly Circus Burger King 
flagship in London reporting a 
25 per cent rise in turnover. 

GrandMet’s Burger King, 
now finalizing its m arketi n g 
strategy to eat into Mc¬ 
Donald's* £300 million share 
of the £840 million British 
burger market, is expected to 
at least match foe £13.5 
miliiOQ being spent on advert- 



Shelling 


ising in Britain by Mc¬ 
Donald’s this year. 

Mr Max Wofienden, a for¬ 
mer Wimpy managin g direc¬ 
tor under United Biscuits, is 
to lead the management team. 
He was unavailable for com¬ 
ment yesterday. 

Analysts, meanwhile, said 
that they expect Elders, which 
owns Cburage in the UK, to 
announce a deal with 
GrandMet when it reports its 
results on February 2l 

It is thought GrandMet, 
which brews Elders’ Foster’s 
lager in Britain, will sell its 
Mortlake Brewery to Elders in 
return for all or some of the 
Courage public houses. 


Drexel’s 


out 

at CSV 

Nick Whitney, the former 
head of UK equities at 
Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers, 
celebrates his 40th birthday in 
two weeks. But he has already 
received his birthday present. 
For he has, after some dis¬ 
cussion, left the firm — which 
pulled out of the UK equity 
market last month — and his 
settlement has b«m paidrn 
frill Whitney, on a £25UOW> a 
year package in his previous 
job at Warburg Sec urities, 
where he was group research 
director, is thought to have 
been on a similar income at 
CSV. “TheyH have to make 

him a millionaire if they make 

him redundant,” raid one of 
his ex-colleagues before news 
of his departure was con- 
finned. Neither Whitney nor 
Citicorp was wiffing to com¬ 
ment yesterday. Meanwhile, 
another former 
nlovee, economist George 
H odgso n, aged 37, has landed 
ajobat Warburg Securities ra 
a UK equity market strategist, 
a iob he is expected to start at 

SE lastly but by uomear* 
CasZ David Brockman, a 
market-maker on the Euro- 

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^Toresdner Bank, 

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THE TIMES CITY DIARY 

Binder picks up the bill 

Becaffiag happier times, when SKG on its tax affairs. “The 


loss 


Scrimgeoar Kemp Gee was a 
partnership, more than 40 
former partners of the firm 
we r e reunited for the first time 
in years last night — in the 
City offices of accountant 
Binder Haudyn. The associ¬ 
ation between the two began 
when Binder Hamtya advised 


partnership has gone its own 
way bat we have continued to 
act for many of the individuals 
and ear private-client tax 
department thought that it 
would be rather nice to bring 
everyone together again. It’s 
oar way of saying thank-you,” 
said a Binder spokesman. 


for analysts. And it has led to 
the parting of one of the most 
popular teams in the market. 
Alec Pelmore and Adrian 
Ehvood have run their slide 
rules over the sector at 
Scrimgeour Vickers, Morgan 
Grenfell and most recently 
I a mg & Cruickshank. But 
now, with the third member of 
the Laing team, Robert 
Fowlds, Pelmore is off to 



“We had a coaple of vacancies 

- but Mr Lawson took them.” 


Klein won Benson. Elwood, 
meanwhile, is staying put at 
laing L -It’s all quite ami¬ 
cable,” says Elwood. But 
Feknore and Fowids, enjoying 
an enforced month at home, 
are looking to the future. “On 
the banking side Klein wort 
Benson have some very good 
property connections. It 
should be lots of fun,” 
Pelmore says. 

Open all hours 

George and Liz Davies met 
City analysis and the fashion 
press for the first time since 
leaving Next last night at the 
launch of their new range of 
do thing for Asda called... 
George. Champagne flowed in 
Asda's flagship store in Roc- 
ham pton, and old rifts were 
healed as George, with Asda 
chairman John Hardman, pre¬ 
sented the clothes which have 
been described as Marks and 
spencer quality ala fraction of 
the price. Indeed so confident 
are they of the clothes’ appeal 
that they opened a till for any 
analysts tempted by the all- 
cotton shirts at £16.99. 


Fund managers in the Square 
Mile will be delighted to learn 
that American-born Jim O’ 
Donnell has just resigned 
from Drexel Burnham Lam¬ 
bert as joint head of institu¬ 
tional equity trading in Wall 
Street. Their dehgbt will come 
from the fact that he is 
returning to London — where 
County NatWest Securities 
has snapped him up to be an 
executive director and head of 
its customer services, which 
means that he will be respon¬ 
sible for research, sales and 
customer liquidity. “He will 
be in charge of sales, market- 
making and research,” says 
Tim Ferguson, chief executive 
of CNWS. “It is a new 
position and a very key 
appointment for us — we are 
delighted to get him.” O’Don¬ 
nell, who is 6ft Tins and 
reputed to weigh more than 20 
stones — looks every inch the 
American footballer he used 
to be. He worked in London 
for Drexel, until it withdrew 
from market-making here a 
year ago. Tales of bis generous 
and imaginative hospitality 
have become part of City 
folklore. “People stiQ talk 
about the Christmas hmefa he 
organized two years ago,” said 
one. “We were told to be at 
Victoria station at a certain 
tima and found ourselves on 
the Orient Express, travelling 
around Kent while we ate and 
drank.” 

• Cynical note in a Melbourne 
broker’s circular ou the state 

of the raaritfiti “The difference 
between playing the stock 

market and the horses fa that 

one of the horses wins.” 

Carol Leonard 


P aint around the balcony where 
Eva Peron used to stand for the 
ovations of her adoring Argentine 
public is peeling away. The Casa Rosada 
is still the centre of Buenos Aires but the 
Argentines have more presang de¬ 
mands on the public purse thaw 
freshening up the funk paintwork. 

Arge nt i n a is a country that ought to 
work, and nearly does. It is easy to say 
that its great days are behind it, when in 
1946, for instance, its gold reserves were 
second only to those of the United 
States. Then, it was a great creditor 
nation, but this week in Buenos Aires, 
the government is desperately con¬ 
cerned with how to obtain its next Joan 
issue from the International Monetary 
Fund. Business, however, seems deter¬ 
mined to trade its way out of debt 

Trade restrictions between Argentina 
and Britain were lifted last year and 
enormous efforts are being made on 
both sides to kick-start the potential into 
reality. Down here in Buenos Aires, I 
met Alan Tabbush, chaipnan of the 
British chapter of the Argentine/British 
joint co mmit tee on trade and invest¬ 
ment Mr Tabbush believes in Argen¬ 
tic and he should know better than 
most having spent a working lifetime in 
Latin America after university in Bue¬ 
nos Aires. 

This week, he was putting the 
finishing touches to arrangements to 
bring Argentine business leaders to 
Britaon, a return match to the trade 
mission he organized out of Britain last 
November. He sees enormous potential 
for trade and regards Argentina as 


possibly the most resilient and resource¬ 
ful of all the national markets in the 
area. But it needs capital 

Tabbush's enthusiasm is reflected in 
Buenos Aires. At a lunch this week to 
celebrate the rantroduction of flights 
between Buenos Aires and London by 
British Airways and Aerolineas Argenti- 
nas, Buenos Aires’ mayor, Carlos 
Grosso, spoke of government plans to 
privatize the great state-owned enter¬ 
prises: the telephones, the airline and 
even the railways. He sees British 
companies as the most natural partners 
to such Argentinian companies, bring¬ 
ing in capital and expertise and, 
ultimately, taking a share of the profits. 

Lord King of Wartnaby, British 
Airways chairman, has offered to help 
the process, while Maria Julia Alsgoray, 
the “trustee” for the telephone com¬ 
pany, Entd, was in London last week, to 
see both British Telecom and Cable & 
Wireless. 

Throughout the Falklands conflict, 
and in the years since, British com¬ 
panies already on the ground in 
Argentina just kept their heads down 
and their factories running: AUied- 
Lyons owns the hugest distillery in the 
southern hemisphere, BAT Industries 
seems to run the tobacco industry. 

But there is, for a year or two, a 
window of opportunity for Britain to 
rebuild its influence in Latin America, 
not so much to turn the dock back to the 
days when Britain owned the railways, 
the tramways, and even the electricity 
company, but as more equal trading 
partners. If Britain does not grasp the 
hand being held out, others wuL 


Cooling the US debt scene 

A mong the concerns surfacing at were burdening companies with debi 
the World Economic Forum in levels of up to 90 per cent of net assets. 
Davos in die oast few da vs was Clearly it is in the interest ol 



A mong the concerns surfacing at 
the World Economic Forum in 
Davos in the past few days was 
the growing indebtedness of US 
corporations. In spite of the generally 
lower level of inflation during foe 1980s 
compared with foe second half of the 
1970s, the ratio of interest payments to 
company earnings has risen substan¬ 
tially over the past decade, Mr Henry 
Kaufman pointed out. 

Mr Kaufman, who now runs his own 
guru organisation, said that in this 
weakened condition US companies 
woe at risk from severe shocks to the 
world economy. If something similar to 
the two oil crises were to happen now, 
15 per cent of US companies or more 
might not be able to cover their interest 
payments. 

Moreover, the instability associated 
with high debt burdens made it more 
difficult for a central bank to do its job 
of curbing inflation. Monetary policy¬ 
makers did not always know what the 
effect of banks being less inclined to 
lend on property might be. 

There is a good deal of evidence to 
support the common sense conclusion 
that high levels of debt tend to make 
companies more cautious and reduce 
spending on research and development 
With corporate America reefing under 
the attack from Japan Inc. the last thing 
US companies need, so it is argued, is 
the land of debt burden associated with 
leveraged buyouts which at their height 


were burdening companies with debt 
levels of up to 90 per cent of net assets. 

Clearly it is in the interest of 
incumbent managements to cry “foul” 
when takeover predators find new 
weapons. There are strong arguments 
for allowing shareholders to make their 
own decisions about their assets and to 
let b anks make their own assessment of 
the balance of risk and reward subject to 
an over-riding regulatory framework. 

Nevertheless shareholders and banks 
need to be fully aware of the implica¬ 
tions of their decisions over the longer 
term. Already hank finance for LBOs is 
less freely available than it was, casting 
doubt on the judgement of lenders on 
foe earlier debt According to Mr 
Kaufman, the securitization of debt is 
likely to diminish in future and US 
financial markets will be “Euro¬ 
peanized”. 

If it is agreed there is a problem what 
is to be done about it? Professor Ben 
Friedman of Harvard thinks the root of 
the evfl is foe tax structure which 
effectively advantages debt finance over 
equity. Change that, and debt would 
rapidly become a much less desirable 
commodity. 

Mr Kaufman’s solution is simpler. 
The problem, according to him, is that 
they do not teach any economic history 
in university these days. A bit less time 
spent on econometrics and a bit more 
on the South Sea Bubble could do 
wonders for attitudes on Wall Street 


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BUS! 


AND FINANCE 


TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


Fighting back on foreign fronts 



Despite the loss to 
foreign competition of 
so many industries, 
the race Is on to dose 
the gap. Since those 
exporting to Britain 
are not s tanding still, 
tiie British need to ran 
twice as hard. If it is 
to survive as an 
industrial nation, 
Britain most achieve 
success within this 
new decade. In the 
final part of our series, 
TOM BOWER 
reports on the new 
breed who are fighting 
back 








I f firitaufs industry is to be 
rescued, it would be comfort¬ 
ing to believe that Nod 
Raleigh is the face of salva¬ 
tion. Eight months ago, Ra¬ 
leigh, aged 36, joined a new team 
battling to save H&R Johnson, 
Britain's largest tile producer. “It 
was a disaster when I arrived and 
it's a tough fight to stop the rat,** 
says Raleigh, (he marketing 
director. 

In the past five years, Johnson's 
share of die British tile market baa 
collapsed. Instead of supplying as 
much as SO per cent of Britain's 
tiles, it now sells less than 20 per 
cent. Just before Christmas, 325 
employees were made redundant 
The beneficiaries are Italian, 
Spanish and Portuguese produc¬ 
ers, eagerly assisted by British 
importers. * 

The screen of Raleigh's portable 
Toshiba computer is covered by a 
graph which tells a depressingly 
familiar fate. When Margaret 
Thatcher became Prime Minister, 
tile imports were worth barely £10 
million. By 1988, they had jumped 
to £130 million - about 70 per 
cent of the total market. 

In the construction industry as a 
whole, imports worth £3-2 billion 
for outstripped exports of £1 
billion. According to Basil 
Feldman, the organizer of the 
“Better Made in Britain” cam¬ 
paign, who has invested substan¬ 
tial time to discover the cause of 
the deficit “h aD began with the 
specifiers - the architects, engin¬ 
eers and surveyors They wanted 
products at a price and with a 
delivery date, and British industry 
lacked either the product or the 
capacity needed to respond.’* 


Feldman organized an exhibi¬ 
tion in 1987 to narrow the 
widening gap. The specifiers were 
asked to exhibit the products that 
they had imported. British manu¬ 
facturers were invited to see what 
markets were available, and enter 
into contracts. To Feldman's dis¬ 
may, “only two manufacturers 
bothered to turn op” Equally 
depressingly, Feldman noticed 
that foreign suppliers were “more 
aggressive in selling". It as a 
lament which has resounded in 
Britain since the 1950s. , 

Among the casualties of the 
wave of imports ts Johnson, which 
has seen hs exports fan by half; to 
just 10 per cent of its production. 
Johnson's fate is a prese nti ment erf* 
the additional and inevitable con¬ 
sequences of the single market in 
1992. 

Although Raleigh's tale of the 
tile is sorrowful, his self-con¬ 
fidence is infectious, It was not 
lack of investment which led to 
Johnson’s problems, for the old 
management sank £14 nriffian in 
tiie same automatic Italian 
machinery used by its foreign 
competitors. 

But by the time the incubation 
period spent getting the machinery 
to work had passed, sales were still 
falling. The public no longer 
wanted small square, smgte-col- 
oured tiles in their kitchens and 
bathrooms, but wanted something 
that reflected their “lifestyle”. 
Price was secondary. Johnson’s 
answer was to copy the imported 
Mediterranean patterns - but the 
decline continued It was realized, 
too late, that every customer 
wanted something different — an 
anathema to those reared on 



‘It all began with the 
specifiers - the architects, 
engineers and surveyors. 
They wanted products 
at a price and with a 
delivery date, and British 
industry lacked either the 
product or the capacity 

needed to respond’ 


massive production of a single 
item. Enter Rakish, the symbol of 
last hope. 

“I've got hit teams to target 
customers' needs," Raleigh says. 
He replaced salesmen with minor- 
image young business graduates 
who “must speak one foreign 
language and be desktop micro 
conversant”. More than £2 mil¬ 
lion, he Hn««n« hao h fT n spent on 
predicting the fashionable colours 
of the 1990s, and special contracts 
to “target the end user". 

Raleigh blames poor marketing 
rather than the product itself for 
the high imports - a potentially 
perilous path to follow. However, 
he insists that “it was a mistake to 
copy Italian instead of 

designing specifically for Britain”. 
Therein lies a massive assumption 
that the British look and label will 
sell worldwide: but it remains a 
critical assumption if Johnson is 


to succeed after 1992. But the 
company’s showroom reveals the 
opposite. 

In the mock-up kitchen, tiie hob 
cooker surrounded by Johnson’s 
tiles is made by AEG of West 
Germany. The hob, which was 
installed before Raleigh's arrival, 
reflects the poor state of Britain's 
domestic appliance industry. Dur¬ 
ing the Thatcher decade, imports, 
of individual “white goods” such 
as washing machin e, fridges, 
dishwashers and hobs have nearly 
doubled, while exports have re¬ 
mained static at 20 per cent of 
imports. The cost to the balance of 
payments rose in the decade from 
£324 jnilKnn fg sli gh tly more than 
£1 billion. Exports increased in 
value from £197 milli on to £367 
milli on. 

Reversing that tidal wave win 
depend upon the likes of Peter 
Walker who, after 28 years at 


Creda, has risen to become the 
OEC subsidiary’s manarinfl direc¬ 
tor. Affable and bhmt. Walker 
joined the company ^just when we 
had been written off forever”. 

The problems then stemmed 
from shortage of investment and 
new ideas, and Creda and its 3^00 
employees has struggled for sur¬ 
vival ever since. 

Despite the evidence in the 
factories, John Banham, the direc¬ 
tor general of the Confederation of 
British Industry, insists that “the 
record of British business over the 
past two years has been excellent”. 
Investment, Ranham says, “is 
running at record levels and is 
currently more than twice what it 
was in 1986”. Yet in real terms it 
remains considerably less than 
that of Britain's competitors in the 
rest of Europe and the Far East 

Only a few of its standard 
products — storage beaters, wash¬ 


ing mjichnieft and coolcn — are 
exported. Walker’s reasons for 
that failure are standard: “We 
coukl sefl aD our production in 
Britain: the cost of exporting is 
expensive; I'd have to change the 
assembly tines; and, finally, vari¬ 
ety is the death of profits.” 

s^in, under Walker's control, 
and with the benefit of GECs cash 
mountain, Creda hopes to reverse 
the tide of imports. It is not an 
insuperable ambition because, as 
Walker explains, Creda success¬ 
fully “rode on the bade” of the 
German-designed cooking hobs 
which until recently monopolized 
the market and has developed 
credible rivals to them. “Neff has 
gone bankrupt,” Walker says, 
“and AEG is losing money.” Yet 
80 per cent of all British sales in 
1989 were of imported models. 

According to Walker, all the 
Italian and French electrical 
giants, including Zanussi and 
Indesit, rely upon government 
support. He insists: “We were the 
only ones making money.” 

There are other hopeful signs. 
Dishwashers, which until recently 
were not even made in Britain, are 
now produced under German 
licence, while British washing 
machines are clawing bad: some 
sales from the Italians. 

However, Walker’s laudable 
fight to rescue Creda with a range 
of new designs reveals unexpected 
import costs which do not bode 
well for the f u t u re. Twenty-five 
per cent of the content of Creda’s 
washing machines is imported, 
while many of the components 
actually made in Ocda*s factories 
are produced on imported 
machinery. Creda's dependence 


upon foreign tods is common 
throughout British industry. 

The foreign manufacturers’ 
metal nameplates on those ma¬ 
chines serve as a wanting to 
British manufacturers of the fate 
of another British industry which 
ignored the lessons that are again 
contributing Britain's trade defi¬ 
cit Until the 1960s, British in¬ 
dustries manufactured a wide 
range of the machines which in 
turn were bought and installed 
throughout the world by indus¬ 
trialists. An inability to innovate 
and a failure to invest had 
predictable and catastrophic con¬ 
sequences. The progressive do- 
sure a decade ago of A. P. Herbert, 
Britain's last big machine-tool 
manufacturer, marked the end of 
an era. Today tire major sources of 
machinery to weave textiles, fill 
bottles, press metal, assemble cars 
and make bricks are foreign. 

T he only comfort, accord¬ 
ing to Michael Fry, 
whose company, 
B. Elliott, sells machine 
tools, is that tire balance 
of trade is nearly equal £410 
million imported against £390 
million exported in 1988. “British 
manufacturers are delaying order¬ 
ing new machines because of the 
reesent economic climate — and 
fiat spells danger,” Fry says. 

Walker consoles himself with 
the thought that Creda is prac¬ 
tically invulnerable to Japanese 
competition, because the cost of 
shipping a fridge or washing 
machine is excessive, compared 
with that of a television set 
But, as Britain’s former car 
manufacturers could testily, that 
could be a false security. 


Coal policy, 
‘a threat to 


WALL STREET 


WORLD MARKETS 


LONDON TRADED OPTIONS 


RECENT ISSUES 


economy’ 


By David Young 
Energy Correspondent 


Britain faces becoming 25 per' 
cent dependent on high-risk 
fuel imports by 1995, with the 
lOSS Of 100.000 jobs 10 mining 
areas, the chairman of the 
Coalfield Communities Cam¬ 
paign said yesterday. 

Mr Hedky Salt, leader ot. 
Nottinghamshire County 
Council, told the campaign's 
annual conference that the 
Government had a “live now, 
pay later” energy policy. 

He said: “Government 
enthusiasm for importing for¬ 
eign coal and sqaundering 
valuable gas resources oo 
base-load power generation 
may produce short-term prof¬ 
its. but will create an eco¬ 
nomic minefield 

“If current policies are 
continued by I99S. Britain ; 
will already be 25 per ceni 
dependent ou high-risk fuel , 
sources and much of out 200 
years’ supply of indigenous 
coal will be sterilized and lost 
forever.” 

By that date, a further 
100.000 direct and indirect 
jobs would have been lost. 


New York (AP-Dow Janes) — 
Share prices were lower in 
moderately active early trad¬ 
ing. Tbe Dow Jones industrial 
average was down H.7| 
points at 2J>I0.81 Standard & 
Poor’s 500-stock index was 
down 1 ’A and the New York 
Stock Exchange composite m- 
dex was down & 


Dedining issues led advanc¬ 
ers by a seveiHo-four margin 
on the Big Board as NYSE 
volume reached 11 million 


shares. Traders were anxious 
to see whether high rates in 
Japan would keep Japanese 
investors out of the longer-end 
of Treasury auctions. The 
market was expecting good 
demand in the three-year note 
auction from institutions. 

• Frankfurt - The 30-stare 
Dax index, which had jumped 
1831 points to an intra-day 
record of 1,957.74 at one 
stage, ended down 1.71 points 
at 1,937.72. 


• Tokyo (AP-Dow Jones) — 
Shares woe slightly firmer in 
thin trading, but sharply down 
from early highs due to ar¬ 
bitrage selling near the end of 
the day. Index-linked buying 
by investment trust funds 
pushed up prices and pro¬ 
vided support at relatively 
high levels until late after¬ 
noon. The Nikkei index dosed 
up 3S.42 points at 37,666.83. 

• Hong Kong - Shares rallied 
for the second consecutive day 


as bargain hunters moved into 
the market Turnover rose to 
HKS754 million (£58.0 mil¬ 
lion) from Monday’s HKS623 
million. Commercial and 
industrial stocks led the way ; 
and the Hang Seng index rose I 
3632 points to 2,792.89. 

• Sydney — Tbe AD Ord¬ 
inaries index rose 2.1 points to 
1,668.9. 

• Singapore - The Straits 
Tima industrial index rose 
6.47 points to 1,582.70. 


fat>0 FabB 
ottqr Horn 


WORLD.MARKET INDICES 


«on Ai 
Mco Stand 


AtanmCA 
4m Banda 
•nbarno 
Am EPC 


BBH 
49% 
17% 

46% 

53% 
20% 20% 
31% 31% 

84% 34% 

61% 82% 


Enron 

Enoon 
FadNMA 
FertiEwn 
Rt Nontar 
Ruor 

Famuoror 

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FttCNcago 
Fa»mw» 
F* Union 




Am Made* 
Am Sana 


OrniOnama 

Gan Sac 

Gan MBs 
Gan Mo«n 
Gan RE 
GraiSgntf 


PMpaPat 
PMdpaBac 
PNp Maria 

S3&|2r 

ParOvtm 

mcFnd 


GanutnaPte 


Paunu 

Pfdmat 

PrwOtfla 


Accra Corep 

venar-Oan 


AtfdamH* 

AT&T 

Athn AcHM 
Auto OP 
Anaryna 
AapnRroa 


Oaytioand 

ct Xante 

at Not Hah 

ot wm«n 

GTE 


Ratem Pur 

Raytfran 

RaytMon 


Worry on 
HK bank 


HaM«a*Fa 

Hawaii Pad 

HBtonMd 

fSna&BDCi 


nUB WB 


RpadaMd 

Stfaco 

Salomon 


lending 


From Lulu Yu 
Hong Kong 

Demand for loans has been 
growing at a faster pace than 
deposits, prompting worries 
that banks may have difficulty 
funding some of Hong Kong’s 
larger infrastructure projects 
such as the HKSI2? billion 
(£9.61 billion) airpon plan. 
Bank (ending surged 32 per i 

cent to HK5U72 bdboo in 
the year to end-December, 
while lota! deposits grew 19 
per cent to HKSI 008 billion 
Also, a heavy increase in 
loans for use outside Hong 
Kong showed that money 
borrowed in the colony is 
increasingly being spent on 
investments abroad. 

In 1989. borrowings with 
unknown destinations nearly 
doubled to HK5107 92 billion 
from KKS54.8 billion Loans 
for use outside Hong Kong 
rose 52.5 pet oeni to 
HKS38I 5 billion, and those 
borrowed to finance the colo¬ 
ny’s activities increased 28.1 
per cent to HK5456.5 billion. 

The trend indicates that 
banks may weO tighten up ou 
tains, raise rates and be more 
selective over clients. 


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Carolina 


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99 HaatMM 

00 * Hrana 

53% 8M 
25% FV 

10% BtootoTW 

34 % Mb 
37% MaMari 
63 lntto 
39% WPapar 
33* rrr 
52% JamaaRMt 


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SewpJ>igh 

SoenPapr 

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SaaraRSfc 

Sooty Pac 


Kfttet 

KknttpO* 


SWTWI 

SI PM 

StortatMfc 

SlonaCra 

San 


CSS 

CanMSW 

Cfcameron 

OiaaaMan 

Cham snag 

cnavron 

tt ir jto ar 

Ouft 

Ckpia 

OK 09 

Ctonwin 


UnBnJctfp 

UxfciNaT 

LBtonM 


Cmem Ena 

CWAHna 

Coastal 

CoctoCdto 

Cotgaa-Pa 

CotuoeOaa 

Compaq 


UayOad 

S3- 

McIW Doug 

MCO0M0A 


SuparVt* 

SWBtf 

Sraco 

Tandara 

Tandy 

T W C B Wi 

T ranp to 0 1 

Tmasfl 

Texaco 

•austral 

Tara* US 

T se ai 

TmaWmi 

Tknaa Star 

Tin»an 

Tuucian 

TsraflUl 

Trowa 


Mu 

Vatuo 

Da* 

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Taarty 

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tfl’00 

qcr 

Vorty 

tfTOa 

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CtfOB 

(U»> 

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ctrpB 

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Tha World 

768S 

-QJ5 

-8.8 

0.1 

-3.9 

02 

-3.7 

(free) 

14d5 

-QJS 

-8.9 

0.0 

-4.0 

02 

-3.8 

EAFE 

1439.3 

-05 

-70 

-0.2 

-a 2 

03 

-2.4 

(tree) 

148.0 

-02 

-7.7 

-02 

-3.4 

0.5 

-2.5 

Europe 

740.4 

-0.3 

-2.7 

-0.5 

-0.8 

0.4 

2.6 

(free) 

159.1 

-03 

-2.7 

-0.7 

-1.1 

0.4 

22 

Nth America 

476.4 

-1.1 

-11.5 

-0^4 

-6.3 

-0.4 

-6.5 

Nortftc 

1565.0 

0.0 

0.5 

0.0 

3.9 

0.8 

62 

(free) 

241.9 

0.3 

2.8 

0.2 

6.1 

1.0 

8.7 

PacHic 

3554.5 

-02. 

-10.4 

0.0 

-4.6 

0.5 

-53 

Far East 

5179.4 

-0.2 

-10.5 

0.0 

-4.8 

0.5 

-5.4 

Australia 

321.7 

-0.6 

-7.4 

-0.1 

0.9 

0.1 

-2.1 

Ausufa 

1898.7 

2.5 

27.8 

2.2 

32.5 

32 

35.0 

Belgium 

902.5 

-0.3 

-8 3 

-0.5 

-5.4 

0.4 

-33 

Canada 

5235 

-0.7 

-12.8 

-0.1 

-5.5 

0.0 

-7.9 

Oenmark 

13455 

0.3 

22 

0.0 

5.1 

t.0 

8.Q 

Finland 

120.4 

0.5 

4.4 

02 

6.9 

1.2 

10.3 

(free) 

153.7 

1-2 

3.1 

1.1 

5.6 

1.9 

8.9 

France 

748.5 

-0.4 

-7.4 

-0.6 

-4.5 

0.3 

-22 

Germany 

964.7 

0.3 

5.1 

-0.1 

8.8 

1.0 

11.1 

Hong Kong 

2065.3 

0.8 

-6.9 

1.5 

-1.6 

1.5 

-1.6 

Italy 

368.5 

-0.1 

-4.4 

-0.4 

-1.8 

0.6 

1.0 

Japan 

55042 

-02 

-10.8 

0.0 

-5.1 

0.5 

-5-7 

Netherlands 

87A2 

-0.4 

-7.5 

-1.0 

-4 3 

0.3 

-23 

New Zealand 

96.7 

-0.5 

-6.2 

0.0 

-1.9 

02 

-0.9 

Norway 

1512.1 

12 

12.7 

1.1 

15.9 

2.0 

19.0 

(free) 

262.7 

1^ 

12.4 

1.3 

1S.7 

2.2 

18.6 

Sing/Maiay 

2061.8 

1.0 

3.4 

12 

6.7 

1.7 

92 

Spain 

221.6 

0^ 

-6.4 

02 

-2.8 

1.2 

-1.1 

Sweden 

1692.9 

-0.4 

-3.5 

-0.3 

0.1 

0.3 

2.0 

(free) 

240.1 

-0.4 

-05 

-03 

2.9 

0.3 

4.8 

Switzerland 

896.4 

-02 

-2.0 

-0.1 

-0.8 

05 

3.6 

(free) 

137.2 

-0.1 

-1.7 

0.0 

-0.5 

0.6 

3.9 

UK 

692,9 

-0.9 

-3.9 

-0.9 

-3.9 

-02 

13 

USA 

428.4 

-12 

-11.3 

-0.5 

-6.3 

-05 

-63 


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Cora no 

Cora Rtf 

Coooar tno 

Conwc 

CPCaw 

CfwmCom 

CSX 

Cana 

Oaymrtud 
Pan 
Pan Mr 


HSrtLMl 

MMOtf 


Oaaaf&a 

OvmEu 


NCN8 

NCR 

NS»«CP 


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Tjrouo 

UAL 

UiCranp 

Un Carafe 

UaPaoec 

UnSevor 

IW*t* 

Unocal 

UHe*» 

uSvrost 

UsvCfe 

USF0G 

U5T 

USX 

UaTad) 

Morale* 

VF 


Dorar 
Dow Oran 
DOW Jonas 
DanaM 


wnmaupa 

WabFafQO 

WMQQac 


Dm BradM 
Earn aurora 
Enon 
ErwaonS 


WWStAm 

MBBlTwon 

NTItowa 


51% lOrsoEa 
30% IPnSn 


AbbraMv 

Aao-Lyons 

Amsfrad 

ASOA 

ABPoOCa 

BAA 

BET 

8TR 

BAT 

Bvtiftys 

Bass 

Besrsr 

Bandera 

BiCC 

Bum *"»• 

8uCra 

WC 

Boots 

B^e 

Bl AflTB 

Si Airways 

Sr Comm 
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8> L arc 
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Bwman 
Bunco 
CAW 
Camay 
Cons 


Cu 

s&o 

UG 

373 

Cooksan 

BBS 

Uoytos 

3.120 

Corat m* 

o*a 

Uoyiis Aoo 

136 

Ctotpary 

374 

Lonmo 

2.969 

Dnums 

591 

Lucn 

1.096 

ECC 

124 

MAS 

1.467 

Emerprij* 

00? 

MjmtfCn i,C3? 

fwnm 

34A 

MB Group 

680 

fiaora 

ZCM 

MEPC 

124 

FXl 

760 

Mtfirtf 

1X11 

Gan Ace 

237 

Hai w#«i 

3.378 

GEG 

6.633 

N0tf 

2,024 

QUO 

W56 

Nth Food 

6i0 

QOO0M* 

528 

P&O 

1299 

Qirerafl 

657 

canon 

101 

Oonm 

in? 

rewgioB 

1X43 

Oanairai 

2Jce 

Popy P»c3< 

I.S75 

GuS A 

279 

Prucanw 

3.7W 

GBE 

1,006 

Aaear 

3^44 

GKN 

696 

na at TM 

285 

Guimsa 

778 

BV HM, 

399 

Hamm A 

83 

Bank 

28S 

Hanson 


fUC 

129 

MAC 


Havana 

1.635 

Mann 

266 

Road 

015 

HTBOOWI 

647 

nsuiara 

1.146 

IM 

142 

RMCGp 

162 

ICS 

m 

RT2 

1.370 

Mhem 

977 

R'Aoycs 

5.6*7 

Jaguw 

2 

Room'S 

135 

K*%^toher 

1X78 

RovSBam 

1.876 

Lasrng 

1.194 

Row m 

1JOO 

LHSroto 

870 

SaaicW 

7Y1 

LrtfSoc 

C?4 

Samsray 

1,784 

Lapora 

78 


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W» 14.634 
Soagwicfc MB 
Shtf 1.521 
Swew BiO 
Siough ISO 
SmtflSN JL650 
SK Beecham 810 
Smen WH 251 
5n«ftalnd 48 

STC 8?5 

Sun Chan 233 
Staitfwa T76 
SunAwxa 1J06 
T&N 113 

T1 Group 529 
ramae i.fiir 
Tata & LyW 
Tiyvwooa 60 
rsg 15296 
Tosco 2J50 
ThorP EMI 380 
Trataipar 178 
TKF 1315 

URramar 2.8*8 
Umgtfo 1.088 
Unaorar 9S2 
UntoaaBA 512 
UWKW-rS 5.054 
W afc O nro *54 

wnaoni 704 
wnsma 2^04 
waa Tab i.07? , 
wanpeyG 271 


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500 26 84 50 25 M 37 
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220 5 9 15 23 28 29 
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145 4 - - m - - 

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500 27 44 52 18 22 28 

550 9 22 - 52 54 . 

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360 41 SO 60 8 15 10 

3B0 23 32 41 20 20 32 

- 390 27 42 52 13 21 25 

430 13 20 37 33 40 41 
480 fi IS 25 67 70 71 
MaU. 550 87 90105 8 14 19 
600 33 54 70 23 30 37 

OfiO 13 32 45 58 3S 03 

— 1050 70100116 40 <7 67 

1100 40 72 92 07 72 79 
1150 23 32 - IBS JOS - 

— 000 - 52 - % % - 

650 % % - - 1 - 

Nar_ 200 29 32 42 5 12 12 

200 17 21 30 13 19 23 

300 0 14 21 27 34 30 

ka— 300 28 37 40 0 11 14 

330 13 21 32 21 K 27 

360 5 12 - 47 47 - 

»c- 400 60 70 82 4 11 14 

600 30 42 57 15 25 30 

550 11 20 32 52 57 0Q 

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300 IS 21 77 5X> 1 10 

220 6H 10 17 17 20 21 

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28013% 23 30 22 25 28 
280 6 15 - 35 30 - 

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200 18 2S 33 0 IT 14 

200 8 14 22 20 22 23 

- 420 07 00 90 4 10 11 

480 32 SO 60 13 10 23 

500 12 30 38 35 30 42 

well 500 8S 60 67 0 IT 14 

550 31 40 64 24 30 35 

000 13 28 40 50 60 83 

a- 100 18 21 29 3 &H 8 

110 13 10 IB 6:i 10 12 

120 OK 11 14 12 15 17 

•— 330 35 42 52 12 20 22 

360 17 25 37 20 36 40 

390 8 15 - 50 52 - 

r- 330 53 70 00 4 0 II 

360 32 40 90 12 16 20 

390 18 30 42 28 32 39 

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360 9 20 77 31 32 XI 

390 4 TO - 53 55 - 

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- 390 32 40 00 2 B 12 

380 » 29 37 II 18 29 

420 2% IS ?4 34 39 43 

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800 20 57 67 15 32 38 

050 7 35 59 48 67 07 

- 420 29 43 50 3 13 15 

400 4 S2 2S 20 32 33 

BOO 1 7 10 00 82 82 

k— 500 50 70 87 1% 17 23 

£50 17 33 57 15 33 45 

600 3 20 35 57 72 77 

- 230 27 33 48 1 4 6% 

300 II 24 32 4 9 13 

330 I* 9 10 20 77 20 

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300 7 13 33 10 20 32 

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— 200 30 40 4* 1 3 4 

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EQUITIES 


P60— 56053*07*00% 211*15* 

rSBQ 80013% 3554% 12% SI 38 

850 218*29% 5985*87* 
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(-224} 280 10 23 27 5 9 18 

240 2 12 17 18 21 28 

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(-268) 280 % % - - - - 

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Anglo Parts 
Anglo Scan Inv Tst 
Otocure (42p) • 

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Chariwal 

Chftem Radto (2l0p) 
Crtytwnd 


Courtyard Lais (27p) 
East Sunay Wator 


Euromoney 

Fosttonrard 
first Phffip (50p) 


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Storm Group (zSo) 

Surrey Gp 
Simon Water 
TR High Inc (520pj 

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Ptotaau Mining NIP 
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 


The langua 






I 


ON SHOW, ON SALE 


Printmakers are no longer at the bottom of the artistic hierarchy, Huon Mallalien reports 


T here arc probably as 
Branments over 
as there are peooie 

with claims tS 
eoanoissenrship and 

The toverof C»d Maw 

a differentUm- 

gnage from that of the B»Hsh 
w^ero^mrscmihiM^st, fctaScme 

tte devotee ofOp An, the admirer 
of Japanese prims or th+ *»**».. 


or me votary Of 

connoiMoTO of the past 

ttore was a taerarofay of esteem 
nrenreg down fiom the Old 
Mjgtos to fee lowly prints and 

pnntmahns. 


- « vi uMHug suu more 

Sw>2S» of a P 0 ^ Painting, 
go^aooaily, t°°, as proven by 
Hearth, or the craze for modem 
etegngs in the 1920s, a wider 
jnihlic can be persuaded to take 
them seriously. 

For several years print collec¬ 
tors have had a regular treat in the 

London Original Print Fair, which 
onngs 25 or so of the leading 
dealers together at Burlington 
House in December. This can be 
Men as a gesture of atonement 
from the Royal Academy for the 
first century of its existence, when 
it denied membership to 
engravers. 

Any visitor to that fair will be 
strode by the variety on offer. 



Horse sense mezzotint engraving from a painting by George Stubbs, 
in the exhibition at Ackennann from February 14 to March 7 


from Durer woodcuts and Rem¬ 
brandt etchings to screen prints by 
way of sporting aquatints and 
18th-century contre-tpreuves. The 
“Original” in the title is most 
Important, since these are prints 
produced by the artists them¬ 
selves, or under their direction. 
There is no place for mechanically 
coloured reproductions mas¬ 


querading as “artist's proofs” on 
the strength of pencil signatures. 

And it is not all Mack and white, 
although for many people black 
and white will always be best. The 
fair, which has participants from 
overseas, only concentrates on 
what is available all year round. In 
"London at present there are 
several worthwhile print shows. 


and there will be a number of print 
auctions during the coming 
month. The Heim Gallery in 
Jermyn Street has just closed an 
impressive show drawn from one 
of the best contemporary collec¬ 
tions of 18th-century British 
prints, but welcomes inquiries (01- 
493 0688). For those in search of a 
contemporary British printmaker, 
Agnew’s, 43 Old Bond Street (01- 
629 6176) will be showing etchings 
and lithographs by John Copley 
from February 21 to March 16. 

Although he died in 1925 Lovis 
Corinth is very much a “modem” 
artist, and as the catalogue of the 
show ax Garton European Prints, 
First Floor, 39-42 New Bond 
Street, (01-493 2820) puts it 
“some of his paintings [and 
several of bis prints] may have to 
await another generation's ac¬ 
claim, because of their allegorical 
subject matter”. There are nodes 
and figures, and a number of 
lithographed landscapes reminis¬ 
cent of Gainsborough drawings. 
There is also a touching contrast 
between his confident 1904 self 
portrait with his wife (£1,250), and 
the careworn image of himself in 
“Death and the Artist” from the 
“Dance of Death” series of 1922 
(£5,000 for the set of five). This 
last price reflects tire fact that only 
two are signed. , 

Sporting prints are a different 
language again, and there are two 
London shows opening in Feb¬ 
ruary. From February 21 to March 


7 the Schuster Gallery, Maddox 
Street (01-491 2208) has a set of 
the “Oriental Field Sports”, 1807, 
aquatimed by Samuel Howixt after 
drawings of tiger hunts and the 
like by Captain T. Williamson. 
Later in March the gallery will be 
showing prints from the BoydeQ 
S h ak espeare project of 1803. 

The other sporting exhibitian is 
at Ackennann in New Bond Street 
from February 14 to Man* 17. It 
covers British sporting and coun¬ 
try fife from 1750 to 1880, 
including more homely work by 
Howitt and by his better-known 
brotiier-iii4aw, Thomas Rowland¬ 
son. Hunting and racing scenes by 
the Aiken family w31 be much in 
evidence, and there win be a 
number of rare boxing prints. The 
earliest prints are three from a set 
of seven engravings 
paintings by John Wootton, pub¬ 
lished in 1770. Among the latest 
are four hunting aquatints after 
John Strugess published in 1878. 
Prices range from £800 to £8,000. 

Lovers of botanical prints might 
prefer the sale of 19th and 20th- 
century prints at Christie’s, South 
Kensington on March 7, which 
concludes the collection from Dr 
Thorn ion’s great Temple of Flora, 
published from 1799 to 1807. 
Prices range from £200 to £3,000. 

Until March 3 Scottish print 
lovers can visit “The Art of the 
Print”, from the ISth to the 18th 
centuries at the Hunterian Ait 
Gallery of Glasgow Univetsity. 


The following is a list of antique 
and collectable exhibitions and 
sales from February 7 to March 7. 
Auctions start at 11am nnless 
otherwise stated. 

To Feb 8: Shropshire Antiques 
Fair, Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop, 
Shrewsbury (05474 464). To Feb 
10: Antiques fra- Business Fair, 
Business Design Centre, N1 (OS- 
441 8940). To Feb 10: Watercol¬ 
ours by R.V. Phchforth, David 
Messing 34 St Georga St, W1 <01- 
408 0243). To Feb 16: Giambol¬ 
ogna's great scnlptnre Fata Morg¬ 
ana. Alex WengraL 59-60 Jermyn 
St, SW1 (01-8524552). To Feb 17: 
Young contemporary painters, 
Anna-Mri Chadwick, 64 New 
King's Rd, SW6 (01-736 1928). 

Feb 8, 2psc Ephemera sale, 
indeding Valentines, Christie’s, 
Smith Kensington, Old Bromptoa 
Road, SW7 (01-581 7611). Feb 8, 
1030am: Arms and medals sale, 
Sotheby's* Bond Street, W1 (01- 
493 8080). Feb 8,230pm: Sale of 
Collector’s cars. Brooks at the 
Doningtoa International Exhibi¬ 
tion Centre, Derbyshire (0332 
812912). Feb 9z Fine art and 
antiques sale, Andrew Grant, The 
Grandstand, Worcester Race¬ 
course (0905 357547). Feb 9-11: 
Stafford Giant Antique Fair, 
Bingley Hall, Comity Showground 
(0532 843333). Feb 9-11: South- 
East Counties Antique Dealers’ 
Fair, Goodwood House, West 
Sussex (0937 832029). Feb 9-12: 
International Silver & Jewellery 
Fair and Seminar, Park Lane 
Hotel, Piccadilly, Wl (01-734 
5491). Feb 10, 1030am: Sale of 
models and toys, Lacy Scott, 
Risbygate St Bury St Edmunds, 
Suffolk (0284 763531). Feb 12, 
Ham and 6pm: Doggy paintings. 
Bonhams, Montpellier Street 
SW7 (01-584 9161). Feb 12-13: 


Luton Antiques Fair, Chfltern 
Hotel, Luton (0582 25546). Feb 
13: Oriental carpet sale, 
Sotheby's, BiiCngsburst West 
Sussex (040381 3933). Feb 14, 
10am: Antiques and old cameras 
sale, Andrew Hartley. Victoria 
HaU, Ukley. West Yorks (0943 
816363). Feb 14, noon: Ephemera 
sale, Phillips West Two, Salem 
Rd, W2 (01-229 9090). Feb 14, 
5pm: Doggy paintings. Christie's 
South Kensington. Feb 15: Water¬ 
colour sale. Sotheby’s, Booth 
Mansion, Chester (0244 315531). 
Feb 15: Sale rd watercolours of 
Turkey and Balkans. Sotheby’s, 
Bond Street Wl. Feb 15: Sale of 
19th-century furniture and sculp¬ 
ture. Christie’s, King Street SW1 
(01-839 9060). Feb 16-18: 
Leicester Antiques Fair. Moat 
House Hotel, Oadby, Leicester 
(05474 464). Feb 22.- Sale of 17th 
to 19th-century tiles. Phillips, 
Bond St Wl (01-629 6602). Feb 
22: Sale at ceramics, glass and 
oriental works of art Lawrence,. 
Crewkerne, Somerset (0460 
73041). Feb 22: Sale of ceramics 
and glass. Beane's, Rainbow, 
Torquay (0803 296277). Feb 22- 
24: High Wycombe Spring An¬ 
tique Fair, Town Hall, High 
Wycombe, Bucks (0743 673674). 
Feb 26-27: Park lane Arms Fair, 
Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, Wl 
(0669 20618). Feb 28, 1030am: 
Antique firearms sale. Christie's, 
South Kensington. Mar 1-3: East 
Anglia Spring Antiques Fair, The 
Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, 
Suffolk (05474 464). Mar 1-3: 
Warwickshire County Antiques 
Fair, County Cricket Groond, 
Edghaston, Birmingham (021 743 
2259). Mar 2: Sale of bird 
painting s, Christie’s, King Street 
SW1. Mar 6: Early ceramics sale. 
Sotheby's Bond Street Wl. 


The First Prestige Fair of 1990 

LONDON 

ANTIQUE DEALERS 
FAIR 


The Cafe Royal,Regent SLLondonW.l 

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 

13th to 18th February 

Tuesday 2pm to 8pm 
Wednesday—Saturday 11am to 8pm 
Sunday 11am to 6pm 

Enquiries: (0799)2380 60 Exhibitors 

Free Entry \foucher. Admit Two GO 

Pleaae present dus voucher ubeRmk reception desk \&/ 


Oft AMERICAN BUYERS SEEK 

Ton m Todd* Bom Me. Pm-lMTa Ctolhn. SlMHita, PMUM«k Chau. 

Sonstot. OMMJawafay. low, UmaHMaanlciMms. adjrwteN 

tnoBwaonB-fcgMo tfo WCMhiyndwnfcir J ai M ea n rondcftor ArtjctooBort bypoM. 

Ouroxpm can caB on you or caD paraooaMy withes* otfgMora. 

Oson Mm - SaL fee - SJ0 pn 

WEEKS ANTIQUE OAU-Sw, 117 r utf tfm i H a wh Wir e * . London WB 
7LN. 

TaL oi-a» Sfiia. (aho in Hm voiiq 


For Sale 

from large private collection 

George Price Boyce (interior) £3,000. 
Thomas Mathews Rook (Choice of three) £400, 
£1,100 and £1,800. Also other fine watercoknns and oils. 

To view Phone 01 -935 7680, 


ORIGINAL 
ANTIQUE 
SEA CHARTS 


An Exhibition of 
stock items 

Closes 
9 February 
*** 

nr very large stock of 
lecorative, raze and 
iteresting old maps, 
charts and plans 
covers all parts of 
itain and die World. 

JONATHAN POTTER 
LTD 

21 GROSVENOR 
STREET 
MAYFAIR 
LONDON W1X9FE 

01-491 3520 


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1 9-11 February 

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15-17 Febrewj 


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Over 100 pieces of 

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Send today for fuH colour 
100 page catalogue and 
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Century. Available direct 
from the importers. Large 
selection on display. 

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Hines o f Oxfo rd, 
DeptTT27 
Weavers Bam 
Windmill Road 
Headington, Oxford 
OX3 7DE 
Teh 0865 741144 


NORWICH ANTIQUE 
COLLECTORS CENTRE 


Packed full of interest for 
collectors to trade buyers. 
Furniture, Ckxks. Brass 
Beds, Art Deco. Art Nouveau. 
Clothes. Linens, Goto Silver. 
Jewellery, Tin Plate Toys. 
Dolls, watercolours, Oils, 
porcelain. Postcards, Coins, 
Victorians, Objets d'Art, etc. 

Open 10am-5pm 
Mon-Sat Coffee Bar. 
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My ;& . nt m U fft i im lOIadhidoal 
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valued by Sotbotys 
ninniiiiilifiilfrnnrinrrn-*- 6U» 

AH by iraowned daJ 
John Anthony FRSA Oafl. 

Qfin over £120000 

WRITE Davies. Suite 2, 

26 St Peters Rd, 

BounmHHitb Dorset BHI 2LW. 



Cdtvin Collins 

COLTSFOOT GALLERY 

HATFIELD. LEOMINSTER, HEREFORDSHIRE HR6 OSF. 
Tel: Steensbridge (056 882) 277. 
SPORTING & WILDLIFE PICTURES & PRINTS 

Specialising in Watercolours and 19th century 
Sporting Prints 

RESTORATION & CONSERVATION 

Of all Works of Art on paper. 

Add free materials & methods used. 

Mounting & framing. 

Member of Institute of Paper Conservation 


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The world's largest commercial collection of Antique aid Modem Silver 
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prices ranging from £5 to £50,000 

Dealers and Ratal Trade catered for. 

Also Jewellery. Glass, China 

CHANCERY HOUSE, 53 CHANCERY LANE, 
LONDONWC2 

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Auction every Thursday at lOam 

Porcelain, Painting, Georgian, 

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FREE STAMP 
VALUATIONS 

For sale ihroogh our auction or 
Private Treaty Safes wiiboui charge or 
obbgtaiaa to sett Wear prepared to 
travel to jour home. Write or 
telephone for free brochure. 

PLUMRIDGE & CO 

(Est 1898) 

Sole 52.26 Charing Cross Road. 
Load oa WC2 HODH 

Tel: 01-836 8694/0939 


BIRTHDAY 



MANHEIM 

(PETER MAN HEIM) LTD 
Member of trio 
British Antiques Dealers 
Byjppotntmamonfy 

Specialists fn English i Bth and 
earty i9tri Century Rorcaain, 
Pottery and Enamels 
Please note change of address 
PO BOX 12SB 
LONDON N6 4TR 
Tet 01-340 9711 


JEANAXATABD. 

Small collection 
of five oils. 

For details. 

Tel: Romford 
(0708) 42722. 


Were yore ancestors laboorere or lords? DebratiwOl trace them whoever 

they were and provide a bound report ss a famfiy heWoom or unique gHt 
For free DooMel 

Debrett Ancestry Research Ltd, Deot T, PO Be* 7, 
Alresford, Hanapshbe S CM 
TEL: 0962 732S7B 


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^ Repairs to fine furniture % 
V and barometers. 

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BILLIARD TABLES 

SpedaSstdaalere for efl sizes & 
styles of tabtes, inefutfing 
combined tlnlng tables. Large 
showrooms for viewing in comfort 
- by appointment only. 
Detafia sent InstaTtetion/export 
ACADEMY ANTIQUES 
BYFLEET (09323)52067 


ART BUYERS GUIDE 


N EWSPAPE RS 

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EXECUTIVE DESKS 

ett X 4tt WaW partners executive 
desks in mahogony. Hlgttiy 
potehed. leather-tooted top. 
Ideal for executive office. 

El ,200 plus VAT 

PLEASE CALL 01-305 2332 


HK31 WYCOMBE ANTIQUES FAIR 
Town KeO 

22 nd - 24th February 

lies - Bpm (UetdBir cksa 6 pn^ 


CLOCK 

RESTORATION 

by expert cr aftsm en on 
our premises. 

ASPREYpte 
IBS Haw Bond St 
London W1Y OAR 

Tel 01-493 6767 


TABLE TOP 




Gold tooled, standard or hand 
dyed colours. Fast efficient 
service by post 

ARTISAN PRODUCTS, 
100 REJGATE ROAD, 
BRIGHTON, SUSSEX. 
TEL: (0273) 557418. 


Spink' 

Buy A War Medals 

induiSng Orders ft Decorations 

Spunk A Son Limned 
Kine Strwt.St James’s. London SWI. 
Telephone 01-9M 78» 124 hours) 
Established 



PIRELLI 1990 
CALENDAR 

Limited edition. Proceeds to 
Save the Children Fund. 
Highest offer secures. 
Tel 0494 813187 after 4pm. 


BECHSTEIN 
BOUDOIR GRAND. 

Top condition, rosewood. 
£5,000 ono. 

Teh (0386) 853555 
Of (0242) 672492. 


ANTIQUE FAIRS 




DOGS IN 
BRONZE 

A retort io n of Canine ScUptuoto 
coincide w«h Crufts Dog Show 

The Sladmore GaSery Ltd 
32 Sniton Place 
London W1X7AA 
Tet 01-489 0365 


WffilNAL DOCUMENTS. 
lmERiMANmiPTS 
4SGNED PHOTOGRAPHS. 

ofhistorkaL literary, musical 
and artistic interest Bought & 
sold. Catalogues free on request 
John Wilson. 50 Acre End 
Street. Eynsham. OXFORD. 
OX8IPD 
Teh (0865) 880883 


S & H JEWELL LTD 

Spedafists bi old reproduction 
ErigSah tu mfturs, desks, taStea, 

chairs etc. 


SrAahte Tumaure bought 
Speriahmade 

Open Moo-Fri, S-E20 pm 
T^phane 01-405 8520 
28 PARKER STREET WC2 


MEADWAY 

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Cash paid for top quality 
items of Antiques/- 
Watches/Jewelleiy 
Gold & Silver 
Tel: 0634 32989 Eves 
Mobile: 0860 345940 


DOGS IN BRONZE 

A selection of Canine 
Sculpture to coincide with 




The Sladmore Gallery Ltd 
32 Bruton Piece 
London W1X 7AA 
Tel: 01-499 0365 


ANTIQUE PORCELAIN, POTTERY & 
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OnUaib Drive, Weybodge, Surrey 
9th, 10th. & 11th Febrsary 
Friday: 12 noon to 6pm 
Saturday & Sunday: Ham to 5pm 

Exhibited from all r WrtMwn «in he ""'■"f w Siv iy»ihy i» nwi «i * 
glass from 1700 m 1920. 

Meat Barer Sander fi— bad Rawhh aya i from the BBC 
Amiqfa Roadshow, who win be on hand tbronghau the fair. M—bare 
Of the pab&c art hrrited to bexag ia ihexrBcmsof poralaia for 


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EAST COUNTIES 
ANTIQUE DEALERS’ FAIR 
GOODWOOD HOUSE, 
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(The South Coast’s most 
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RWJAYWi to SUNDAY IMhFffiMMHY 
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mnon- and dnsnM wttfa lace doo. 
am of John nod Yako. £50.000. Beoty 
to BOX BZS. 


HOLT LAMS Vol 2 DV DaLid Roberts RA 
UthograotB oy Louis Havhc puM F-C 
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 



MEDIA & MARKETING_ 

I New uses are bring found for the photographs that made Picture Post fa mous. Andrew Lycettreports 


Satellite TV wars 


go to the movies 


B roadcasting star wars are about 
to start in earnest with the im¬ 
minent arrival of BSB to chall¬ 
enge the one-year-old Sky. Both 
sides see movies as the heaviest artillery. 
This is how they hope to gain and secure 
new ground to be turned into tangible 
value, through the prize of subscription 
monies. Once fully charged out, each side 
trill be wanting around £10 per month 
from a satellite household, so on this level 
there is little to choose between them. 

When it comes to the matter of on-air 
viewer appeal, there are claims and 
counter-claims. BSB's Anthony Sim- 
onds-Gooding says of Rupert Murdoch’s 
Sky; “We will have better movies, and 
this is our main card." Murdoch, by way 
of reply, loses no opportunity to tick off 
BSB for bidding up the price satellite 
paid to get at the movies, but does not 
concede the main point If there is a 
“film gap”, it would seem to be of a 
smallish order. When pressed, even BSB 
propa gandis ts claim no more than a 
60-40 advantage, not of itself enough for 
BSB to deliver a knock-out blow. 

Television has always relied heavily 
on movies. Cinema-_ 


going may have 

fellen away in the -.fvIcCSl'A- 

Fifties as television 

viewing spread, but ' '' r ' ■' "■ ' 

the appetite for I}—\) 

movies did not die. D1 idll Y 

It amply moved _ 

across Grom one 

venue to another. Even though cineastes 
argue that the small-screen habit under¬ 
plays film's potential, literally cutting it 
down to television size, the majority of 
us remain unabashed. Most of the time 
we settle happily for the small-screen 
experience. 

Sky and BSB will get movies to us 
faster than do the established broad¬ 
casters of BBC ITV and Channel 4. That 
is the basis of their special attraction and 
their special charge. The model comes 
Grom the United States, where Home 
Box Office set the pattern, and other 
competitive subscription services fol¬ 
lowed. Increasingly though, in both 
countries, watchful attention has had to 
be paid to the interventions of a third 
force, in the shape of the video-store. 

Video-viewing in Britain is now a weD 
established business. Pan of its appeal is 
in permitting easy time-shift when ordin¬ 
ary schedules get crowded; pan, perhaps 
the greater part, is as a short-cut into the 
most recent cinema offerings. Crucially, 
the video-shop will get you the movie 
not only faster than ordinary television, 
but faster than satellite too. The "win¬ 
dows”, as they say in the unde, usually go 
in this order, cinema release, video 


Brian Wenham 


release, pay-satellite release, ordinary 
television release. What’s more, those of 
us addicted to the video habit will have 
noted that with a video you can stop, 
start, make coffee, kick the cat all in 
your own time. Broadcasters, and this 
includes satellite broadcasters, offer you 
the film at a fixed time, for continuous 
and settled viewing. 

Satellite operators say they win over¬ 
come this “owu-time” difficulty by offer¬ 
ing films in staggered pattern, perhaps 
around half a dozen times within a 
month. You can then make your own 
most convenient date. But, of course, 
this heavy repeat pattern itself trims the 
appeal of the overall service to those who 
would prefer a constant intake of movies 
that are both recent and different. 

Satellite operators like to shrug off the 
video factor. Their line is anything that 
increases the profile of the movies 
eventually works to the advantage of alL 
So, cinema-going is increasing alongside 
the rise in home video-viewing. So may 
it be with satellite. And Sky reports 
heavy demand from dish-owners to stay 
with Sky movies, as it translates from 
_ free to paid service. 

So far, there seems 
IP;II to be little holding 
back, even though 
- 5 —*■ 90 per cent of Sky 

enham 

__ And yet there is a 

nagging doubt Both 
Sky and BSB are seeking 2.5 to three mil¬ 
lion viewers for break-even comfort, and 
more for decent profitability. Together 
they aspire to penetrate roughly one in 
three UK homes, and within a couple of 
years. Somewhere along this line, as they 
try to move the beach-head out beyond 
the early pioneers, may they not yet run 
into trouble at the video barrier? Will the 
streetwise habitud of the video-store be 
eager to pass over £10 a month for 
another chance to see films he has 
already seen, or will be prefer to keep 
that mosey to stay abreast of the new? 



Hi-tecfa plans for dastic prints; Darid Walts, whose hopes for the 23 million images in the Holton Dentsch Collection indnde T-shirts and storage on video dbc 


Gold in them 




W hen Brian Dentsch, the 
cable television en¬ 
trepreneur, beat off 
competition from Rob¬ 
ert Maxwell and others 
to buy 12 million photographs and 
assorted images from the BBC in May 
1988, something was dearly afoot. 
The prints and negatives made up the 
Hulton Picture Library, started in 
1947 by Edward Hulton, publisher of 
Picture Post, Britain’s most successful 
news photographs magazine, and sold 
to the BBC 11 years later. 

They included work for Picture Post 
by sucta celebrated photographers as 
Bert Hardy and Grace Robertson, as 
weQ as additional historical material, 
such as Studio Lisa's intimate por¬ 
traits of royalty from 1936 to 1934, 
and Baron and Sacha's theatrical shots 
from the same period. 

Deutsch, whose cable interests in¬ 
dude Westminster Cable Company in 
London, acquired the collection after 
(he BBC decided it was not part of its 
core business. Brushing aside protests 
that ft was "selling the family silver”— 
for an estimated £1 million to £2 
milli on — the corporation negotiated a 
series of safeguards with Dentsch, 
which induded continuing and 
preferential access for the BBC itself 
It was agreed that the library would 


T here's an interesting item in a 
recent Wall Street Journal 
study, telling us that 36 per cent 
of Americans now rate renting a 
video best value for leisure money, 
whereas only 12 per cent put subscrip¬ 
tion television top of the leisure list This 
may prove true too in Britain, where the 
vidca habit is even more deeply en¬ 
trenched. The first key encounter of the 
satellite age may be less between one sat¬ 
ellite operator and the other, more 
between either or both and the obstruc¬ 
tion to satellite advance presented by the 
well dug-in third force of video. 


not be sold abroad, and a board of 
directors, including Lord Quinton, 
chairman of the British library, was 
set up to oversee its miming. 

Nearly two yeara later the Hulton 
library has grown to an estimated 23 
million images, following Deutsch’s 
acquisition of Keystone — a similar 
but more news-based collection of 
historical photographs - from Photo- 
source (now the Telegraph Colour 
Library) in December 1988. 

Deutsch has spent an undisdosed 
sum rehousing the two collections in a 
pair of warehouses off the Harrow 
Road in west London. The negatives 
are now held in a climatically con¬ 
trolled part of the complex. Although 
the man hours still needed can hardly 
be contemplated, work has begun on 
indexing and preservation. Now the 
Hulton Deutsch Collection, as it has 
been renamed, is ready to be marketed 
to its full capacity. 

Last summer, however, the collec¬ 
tion's smooth transformation was 
threatened. Peter Elliott, the manag¬ 
ing director, resigned, as did Roger 
Wemyss-Brooks, the picture director, 
and Ken Lewis, the general manager. 
Wemyss-Brooks recalls; “Following a 
series of board meetings in the early 
summer, we were told we were not 
coming up to scratch and our Ameri¬ 


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can investors were not happy- The 
crunch came in the early summer 
when I was asked to increase our sales 
targets by 65 per cent. I protested 
vehemently.” 

Elliott says: “They wanted it fi¬ 
nance-led rather than picture-led.” 

For his pan, Deutsch says the three 
who left were “very good chaps, but 
not businessmen”. In their stead 
came David Watts, aged 42, the 
former editor of Which?, the Con¬ 
sumer Association magazine. 

One of his priorities must be the 
position of the collection in the 
market Prominently displayed in the 
foyer of one of the warehouses is a 
signed print of “The Boys from the 
Gorbals”, Bert Handy’s famous photo¬ 
graph, taken in 1948, for Picture Post. 
Beside it is a smaller photograph of 
the two boys today, both of them stout 
and middle-aged. 

Watts looks up at the pictures and 
says: “We need to get away from that 
image. People think of us as being 
only Picture Posl In feet, we're now 
the largest picture library in Europe, 
with great strengths in royalty, social 
history, sport and political figures.” 

Although the BBC produced a series 
of postcards and calendars, almost 
exclusively from foe Picture Post 
archive. Watts wants to license his 


images to a much wider range of 
products, such as T-shirts. With his 
publishing background, he hopes to 
get foe archive material into more 
books. There are plans for television 
programmes (including a quiz show) 
based on Hulton mate rial and, given 
Deutsch’s interests, proposals for an 
interactive cable link, which would 
allow cable television viewers to 
purchase merchandise by telephone. 

This kind of talk approaches the tn- 
tech new media world envisaged by 
Deutsch when be purchased foe 
library. He talks of “putting 10,000 
images on a video disc”, and used by 
picture editors. He wants to introduce 
military-tested computer technology 
which, within moments, can pick out 
a picture from thousands of others- In 
the future, customers will be able to 
use a video terminal to choose 
photographs from foe library and 
have them transmitted down a tele¬ 
phone line. 

Tne intention is that foe Hulton 
Deutsch Collection win become a 
pictorial data bank which can be 
accessed by telephone, in much the 
same way as the financial Times 
Profile system operates for text. 
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have to be made by both Hulton and 
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Full of 
eastern 
promise? 

Suspicious European buyers often 
view Japanese products as down¬ 
market. Nicola Chapman explains 
how new marketing attitudes 
are being forced on to the East 

M any Europeans the Japanese, includes more 
consider the Jap- than 3,500 interviews with 
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advertising agency part- 
owned by Dentsu, Japan's 
bi gg est advertising agency. 

“Japanese Brands: Balanc¬ 
ing Heritage and Expertise**, a 
study of European attitudes to 


the Japanese, Includes more 
than 3,500 interviews with 
opinion-formers throughout 
Europe. It has discovered that, 
although the Japanese are seen 
as extremely hard-working 
and successful, with tech- 


companies such as Sony and 
Toshiba are widely acknowl¬ 
edged to have won recognition 
in the UK, other Japanese hi-fi 
brands have not been so lucky. 

Sony believes its marketing 
has succeeded because it has 


manufacturing methods, few¬ 
er than one European in 10 
trusts them to keep their 
promises. Some people, most 
notably the British, even 
believe their management 
strategies are underhand. 

As a result, the report says, a 
complex relationship has 
sprung up between western 
consumers and Japanese 
goods, which the Japanese 
may have to work hard to 
overcome. Certainly, although 


Japanese concern. “We don't 
class ourselves as a Japanese 
company and we don't pro¬ 
mote ourselves as being Japa¬ 
nese," a Sony spokesman says. 

Gold Greenlees Trott, the 
advertising agency behind the 
“Hello Tosh" advertisements 
for Toshiba, also realized that 
to promote the brand it had 
first to familiarize the British 
with the Toshiba name. “In 
order to become big players in 
international brands, the 


Japanese are having to cast off 
their Japanese-ness,” Mike 
Greenlees, the joint chairman, 
explains. 

Hostile attitudes to Japan — 
already prevalent in pans of 
the United States and Austra¬ 
lia, where there is ad aversion 
to Japanese goods — are not 
the only reasons why Japanese 
companies should reconsider 
their strategies, says Marco 
Rimini, the compiler of the 
report. But to avoid similar 
antagonism in the UK, he 
believes Japanese companies 
will have to adopt promo¬ 
tional strategies highli ghting 
the economic and employ¬ 
ment benefits they bring. 

However, companies such 
as Hitachi, Mitsubishi and 


Aiwa could be held back 
because they lack individual 
identities and prestige. 

Rimini says: “The problem 
the Japanese have is that 
people think of their products 
being produced by robots 
rather than white-haired old 
men in aprons. This is a 
handicap in many areas yv efa 
as fashion, service sectors and 
luxury cars. 

“People also see Japanese 
goods as expendable. They 
buy a hi-fi or a video and a 
couple of years later it is dated. 
People see Japanese goods as 
things they can flog for a 
couple of a years and then 
throw out. People don't love 
Japanese products in the way 
that you would love and look 


after am expensive pen, or a 
beautiful Italian sports car.** 

To cultivate a more up¬ 
market image, some Japanese 
companies have embarked on 
marketing programmes to sell 
more luxurious products. 
Honda, for instance, is in¬ 
troducing sports cars in the 
US, but HDM estimates that 
many Japanese brands still 
suffer from having too few 
characteristics that could ap¬ 
peal to westerners. One rea¬ 
son, Rimini explains, is that 
Japanese businessmen still 
believe rigidly that a new 
product must have a tech¬ 
nological advantage over its 
rivals before it can be 
introduced. 

In Europe, however, this is 
now decreed as less important 
than what is known in market¬ 
ing as a unique selling propo¬ 
sition, based on emotional 
values. By concentrating more 
heavily on advertising old- 
fashioned Japanese attributes, 
Japanese companies might 
gain higher UK sales, the 
report argues. 

As if anticipating this, man y 

Japanese companies operating 
in Britain are reviewing their 
marketing and advertising 
strategies and are looking for 
UK-based advertising agen¬ 
cies to devise European cam¬ 
paigns. The Japanese airline 
AnA is in touch with a number 
of agencies, and Mitsubishi 




million for a television 
advertising campaign featur¬ 
ing its cars through the Gen¬ 
erator advertising agency. 

A spokesman for Generator 
says: “More and more Japa¬ 
nese companies are taking a 
westernized approach to mar¬ 
keting and advertising, using 
locally-based firms. We did 
attitudinal research and con¬ 
cluded that the company 
needed to put across a more 
cohesive message." 


Pop goes the 
test-tube. . . 

Can a science programme challenge 


EastEnders in the soap ratings? 


T he new Independent on Sun¬ 
day is employing a byzantmc 
— and costly - method of 
boosting sales during the first three 
months of its launch. The rose 
involves a deal with wholesalers 
that guarantees them payment for 
90 per cent of the papers ordered, 
whether they are sold or not Any 
shortfall in sales below the 90 per 
cent will be paid at the exact 
equivalent of the normal 10 percent 
value of any copy of a paper sokt 
6p. This 6p is to be designated as a 
“haulage fee" 

Because of the high volume of its 
initial print ran —12 miDion in dm 
first week and just under 1 million 
in the second—the offer has already 
cost the loS dear. The paper sold 
740,000 of its launch issue, which 
leaves more than £20,000 lobe paid 


The Sunday sales gamble 

The Independent on Sunday ; the newest contender in the heavyweight 
weekly market, is counting the cost of an unusual wholesale deal 


to the wholesalers. With last Sun¬ 
day's sale "stimatpd at 580,000, the 
bin is also going to be substantial. 

Brian Hutt, the ZaS*s circulation 
manager, admits that the offer to 
wholesalers could be costly, but 
insists that having reserved the right 
to limit supply to the trade, tire 
papa- win now be able to control the 
sums it pays out “We took a gamble 
on the first issue, but we went into it 
with our eyes open.” 


Nick Sbott, chiefexecutive of The 
Sunday Correspondent, which has 
been hardest hit by the arrival of the 
loS, reckons the offer could be 
counter- productive, giving whole¬ 
salers little incentive to sell if they 
know they win earn 6p a copy an 
unsold stock. “Without casting 
aspersions, it does give opportu¬ 
nities to the wholesaler with an eye 
to the main chance," he says. 

And the temptation for whole¬ 


salers to flood retail outlets with 
copies of the paper must also be 
hard to resist One London news¬ 
agent reported last week that instead 
of halving his initial order of 150 
copies as requested, his wholesaler 
doubled the order for the second 
week. “My customers couldn't get 
into the shop because of the huge 
piles of unsold copies,” he said. 

Hutt argues, however, that whole¬ 
salers will not stand to gain by 


ordering extra copies: “It win cost 
them more in handling costs, 
processing the papers, and sending 
them out to retailers than what they 
make on unsold stock,” he says. 

The wholesalers themselves are 
reluctant to discuss the offer. Len 
Bull, chairman of the London 
division of the Association of 
Newspaper and Magazine Whole¬ 
salers, agrees that the first loS print 
run was “ambitious”. 

. Sandra North 


• Ogfivy & Mather, the advertfefag 
agency, has not made any staff in 
London redundant, as was in¬ 
correctly stated in Media & Market¬ 
ing cm Janaary 10. 


S cience on television is 
making efforts to come 
out of the test-tube. 
Channel 4's irreverent new 
science magazine, 4th Dimen¬ 
sion , comes complete with 
stand-up comedians and rock 
music. And later this month, 
Yorkshire Television 
launches a new science docu- 
drama series. Science Fiction, 
on ITV opposite EastEnders. 
Yorkshire likes to think of the 
series as a collection of B- 
movies — “cheaply produced, 
with a dear narrative, simple 
style, contemporary subjects, 
a few strong characters" — 
with unwieldy scientific frets 
kept firmly at bay. 

Duncan Dallas, Yorkshire's 
head of science, says it's 
essential that they get the 
science right. But all the same, 
calls the episodes “soaps", 
and to prove he is serious be 
has drafted in Brookside’s Phil 
Redmond to produce four of 
them. 

The BBC is also stirring. 
Horizon has appointed a new 
editor. Jana Bennett, to start 
in June, and this week Kate 
Bellingham, fresh from BBC 
engineering, will appear on 
Tomorrow's World for the 
first time Tomorrow's World 
has lost approximately one 
milli on of its average 10 
millioD audience in the past 
year. Outsiders view the 
shake-up, under Graham 
Massey, head of science and 
features, as an attempt to stem 
the decline. The changes have 
done little to quell anxiety 
over programme axings in the 
BBC's science department* 
possibility of which Richard 
Reisz, editor of Tomorrow's 
World, makes no bones. 
“When you have programmes 
like Horizon and Tomorrow’s 
World, two of the longest 
running programmes on the 
BBC, you clearly need to be 
asking , ‘Is this what we want 
to be doing, are we doing it 
right, should we be doing 
something different, should 
we be doing it at all?*". 

Caroline Thomson, 
commissioning editor for fi¬ 
nance, industry and science 


for Channel 4, dates the first 
signs of change to 1985, when 
the BBC’s award-winning 
docu-drama Life Story dem¬ 
onstrated that science and 
drama were compatible. 

She says: “One of the fea¬ 
tures of the Eighties has been 
that people have begun to 
understand that science and 
technology are an integral pan 
of Britain’s success or failure 
and that television hasn't been 
covering them awfully weD.” 

“Producers have begun to 
realize that science should be 
treated much like any other 
subject. It can be turned into 
drama but equally it can be a 
subject for argument and de¬ 
bate.” Yorkshire’s Duncan 
Dallas throws doubt on the 
conventional view that pro¬ 
grammes such as Horizon and 
Tomorrow’s World must be a 
success because they have 
been running for years. “To 
me, they are old-fashioned. 
Tomorrow's World, which was 
initially just a gee-whizz type 
of programme, has to its great 
credit tried to come out of that 
formal but finds it very diffi¬ 
cult to criticize technology." 

Reisz acknowledges the 
criticism, but vehemently de¬ 
nies the charge that others 
have stolen a inarch on the 
BBC They don't need out¬ 
siders to read them the riot 
act, be says. All of it has been 
thoroughly aired wi thin the 
BBC 

A lot of producers in this 
department feel that we 
have been too close to 
the science es tablishme nt and 
that we shouldn’t be." 

New programmes in the 
pipeline include Rough Medi¬ 
cine on BBC2, which will 
focus on cases of medical 
malpractice, and Life Styles, a 
mass- appeal BBC1 consumer 
science magazine in the plan¬ 
ning stage. What we won't be 
seeing, Reisz insists, is an end 
to the BBC specialist science 
programmes. All that is 
needed, he suggests, is a 
broader mix. 

Angela Brooks 


-MOREAWAY- 

OFLEFE... 

If you are a self-motivated individual with good communica¬ 
tion skills and initiative, the role of a Recruitment Consultant 
with the Senior Secretaries Group could be just the life for you. 

You will be joining a bright young team of achievement 
orientated consultants in one of our five London branches in die 
West End, the Strand orcheGry. You will be liaising with a broad 
spectrum of clients, interviewing and matching quality candidates 
to top secretarial appointments. 

The Senior Secretaries Group is a long established and pro¬ 
gressive recruitment network in London and the South with a 
European branch in Brussels. We will train you in our professional 
approach to recruitment and you will be well supported by our 

management team. ... 

Our consultants currently earn a competitive salary plus per¬ 
formance related bonuses. ....... .. 

If you can see yourself succeeding in this role, just call 

Brenda Robinson on 01-499 0092. 

The Senior Secretaries Group Head Office is at 
173 New Bond Street, London WIY 9PB. 

THE SENIOR SECRETARIES GROUP 

- LONDON - SOUTHAMPTON - BRUSSELS - 


MARKETING EXECUTIVE/ 
AMBITIOUS PA? 

IF YOU ARE DYNAMIC. ENTHUSIASTIC. NOT AFRAID 

OF HARD WORK AND REALLY HAVE INITIATIVE. 

Salary £13,000 negotiable 


H you have sales ability/potential and either a background In or 
understanding of marketing... 

You may be a frustrated marketing assistant somewhere, fed up with never 
being able to make decisions or equally a frustrated PA who has worked in 
Marketing, Advertising. Sales Promotion or some other frenetic 
environment. 

Whatever your background, you win need the above qualities - or rather we 
do. You will be working under the ejection of a like minded group marketing 
director, but you will be left on your own to get on with it and meet the 
challenge - which is a big one. 

Unusual offices based in stunning Cotewolds countryside (3/4 hour Oxford, 
1/2 hour Stratford, 2) minutes Cheltenham). 

Only p eople who really fill the above need apply. 

Write and say why we should interview you. 

Francesca Cook, Group Ma rketing Director, 

Sudefey Castle and Gardens, Wlnchcorobe, Glos, GL54 5JD. 


PAPERBACK 


The UK’s leading specialist 
supplier of Recycled Paper 

tor the loaowmg positions.- 

OFFICE STATIONERY MANAGER 

SWrar *■» ** ‘** r ***■**■ 

SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE 


otter benaftts. . g. above posts wB haw proven aakwftnonagnment 

The Weal candidatesforea® „ .^aSSteduaote®. a u wf nX ment t o promoting 

eKpeneroto motivate small but growng mams, 
genuinely green 

SENIOR TELE—SALES 

To work *n the 

„eg. plus prom share plus otner benefits. 

envsonmentaJ osoes. career development. Paperback Is a co-operatively 

AH three posts ® apply ,or membership (with subsequent 

t*™**™^^ <****■ 

^ringOatreorS^ 

PSP ^ paperback strives to be an aqual appertunMu employor 


GOETHE-/p O 
INSTITUT 1# LONDON 

The German cultural institute needs a bf-flngual 
programme assistant (part-time; afternoons) 
with special responsibility for 

ART EXHIBITIONS 

Duties will include organising exhibition tours, 
looking after all aspects of transport, customs, 
insurance; negotiating with printers, general 
office administration and some proof reading. 

Applicants must be fluent in spoken and written 
English and German, energetic, with an ability 
to work on their own initiative and willing to 
assist in other areas of the programme 
department. 

Further details from Henrike Hawkins, 
Goethe-tnstitut London, 50 Princes Gate, 
Exhibition Road, London SW7, Tel 01 - 581 3344. 


TRAINEE BROKERS 

Due io expansion, our diems are in need of two trainee 
brokers 22+ to work in the City. High income white 
training rising rapidly with experience. Full training given 
towards management. 

Call Mr P Hussein on 01-495-1000. Rec Cents 
F rim d fy service jo* am tota l -- 
27 MADDOX ST. LONDON W1 TEL NO. 01-495 I OOP 


SUMMER JOBS IN THE U.S.A. 


THE CUTTY SARK 
MARITIME TRUST 

DIRECTOR 


ications am invited from 
r rattrad parsons m thee 
50‘s ter this rewsreUru 
Don to stmt In April. 


Applicants w9 be 
experienced tend rateera 
vrfth * flret-ctass reconf of 
wtde management sfcHs and 
■ knowledge of marketing 
and PR. We need a strangle 
thfeiloer with vision and 
absolute integrity. 

Apply with CV and 

photograph ax 

The Ch ai r man. Cutty Sark 
Mariam a That 
2, Qraemriob Church Street, 
London SEIOSBO. 


CETING ASSISTANT 

otai dtfy newapaper «en*Wthe Drink* •«* 
ary- 

T r _ marketinB ataisant w Wp.tne 
***** fmeaatL 

f^Tthe opt***®* ft* you. 

JfM . with nod typing *»U*. 

J,X^^^‘ yoUWlJ1,KCda * efiSe 

^ rixse criteria pierae apply ft* an 
ro to: 

Homing Ad-rifi*#* 71Bn “*' nek 

jSZtS 01-2M 0228. 


Leading 
Birmingham 
Consultancy needs 
PR Account Manager 

Write wit,-, c. v. to 
Managing 0.rector:.-- 
Rote PR, . - 
55-66 Hagiey Roa?,. 
Birmingham 
- 315 $Pr ;v 


Camp America needs anyone interested and/or _ 

experienced m working with cMdren to work on Amoncen 
summer camps foe 9 weeks. 

Canai America offers you free return flight, board arid 
kxfgmg. pocket money and up to 6 weeks tor indopandei 
travel. 

If you want more details, are aged 18+ and am free from 
June to Saptemoer send a postcard with your name and 
address to: 

CAMP AMERICA, Dept TT0023 
37A Queens Gate. London SW7 5HR Y 

We wfllbe holding Recnaniwm Fairs. /L 

Please caB 01 -2251408 tor more infor m ation. JUS 


START A GREAT 
CITY CAREER 


For dateHed MonnMon cafl. 
MAfUO CALAFATO 
on 01*4003128 
(Weal End Oft**) 
MXGROUP. 


SALES PEOPLE 

9 bright xfl ifm i xte c, organised 
aaiae people neaoaa to |eki e may 
■Mae warn, pranodog heoay 
aemoe auennwies. 

D ipo rt aw c a In Wsphon e tales t 
antey ta ana 8 w on new 
conrans in Bn Onwiw, 
MinwuraL sod Esmesiy ns'i. 

CVe to F. Fnswtay, 

27 CMbtgMR Oerdene, 
London SW5. 


An opportunity oasts for wo »el 
spotim Sates Bwadnes to fain a 
dynamic pnlifiattaifl mntiiay to 
i dwetop and cuttfwft ad sdaa on 
GEOGRAPHICAL and 
FERRARI WORLD Magazines. 

Bade satay pks commtssfcai 
1 For terther Infon na S oi Taf 
Hyde Park PsfcfcattoK m 
01-537353 


CLASSIFIED SALES MANAGER 

MAGAZINE ADVERTISING 

£18,000 - 20,000 pa 

Our dient is a well established. Publishing Company 
producing quality magazines in the Business io 
Business sector. 

As pan oFplanned investment in the classified 
markets they are seeking 3 Classified Sales Manager to 
coordinate the activities of their existing teams. 

The position will appeal to someone with wide 
experience and dear understanding or specific 
classified markets and their development. 

Your brief is to consolidate the existing sales effort 
and build on the success of this by good man 
management, training and motivation. In addition 
you will be required to support the sales effort and 
increase revenue by creating innovative new areas of 
business opportunity and implementing above and • 
below the line marketing activity. 

Reporting at Director level, you will receive guidance 
and support but must be confident in your stalls, and 
energetic enough to lead by example in developing, 
controlling ana moiivaung the sales force. 

Remuneration includes excellent basic salary, 
performance bonus which will give an OTE of £18 - 
20.000 in the first year, plus company car. 

If you believe you are suitable for this job please 
telephone or write to me: SUE HEDGES on 
01-242-4440 quoting REF NO I'M). 


Morgan Keating 

ASSOCIATES 

SAUESIECRtHTMEKT CONSULTAWTS _ 

25 Bedford Row Landau WC1K 4HE Tefc 01-3C W0 F» r 01-342 0079 

PUBLIC RELATIONS 
OFFICER 

£13.872 - £14,736 inc. 

You will be responsible for implementing the Leisure 
Centre Public Relations Policies, and will be expected 
to actively promote ail of the centres activities, in 
relation to providing the many groups with all the 
relevant information. You will be involved with local 
and national press, radio and television and the local 
community. 

If you have the ability to adapt to changing demands, 
personal drive and enthusiasm combined with well 
developed social skills, and an understanding of the 
customer care approach, then we would tike to hear 
Grom you. 

Application form and job description available from 
the Personnel Office. Harrow Leisure Centre. 
ChrisfchBrch Avenue. Harrow, Middlesex. HA3 
5BD. Telephone: 863 5611 extension 3764/2718. 
Closing date: I6tfa February, 1990. 


PART-TIME 

LIBRARIAN/ 
INFORMATION OFFICER 


An excellent opportunity has arisen tor a Librarian with 3/4 
years sound practical e xperience (Ubranansttp Quattflcation 
on advantage) «i mo tnendty Coy law firm. 

The successful oppficam wtfl have a thorough knowledge ot 
Ebrvy procedures. pmleratXy in a legal environment: the abiity 
to design and set-up online infor ma nts systems (such as 
Textone ana lbwibQ and a good grounding in enquiry and 
research work to enable them to produce a concise currant 
awareness DuUem. 


If you are prepared to mene 
personality, the atxhiy to be 


a smal staff, have an out-going 
abb ana sra profiennt at itaisffig 
t you wa find this an im arasOng 


wnn Partners ana Management you wa fmd thrs an ira aresOng 
andcnafiangmgroiB. WPiramnggiven tart previousknowteoga 
an advantage Compem»ve samy ottered on a pro-rata beats 
(hours to be discussed). 

For further details please contact Hazel Pankhurst at the 
address given below. 

Taylor Joynson Garrett 



R ROW 


SALES CAREER 

GENUINE £30,000 PACKAGE + 
DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN 
PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS 

An International property company has 3 new 
positions in each of its London offices 
(Vacancies in Bromley & Ealing) 
for account executives. 

You will be between 20 and 35 years of age with 
an outgoing personality and have a good 
education. No experience is required as foil and 
ongoing training is provided. 

You will be negotiating directly at the highest 
level for participation for various property 
based ventures. 

These are permanent prestigious positions with 
unlimited scope for improvement 
& advancement with exceptional rewards. 

For further details please telephone: 

01-874 3844 

Initial interviews will be held in London 
on Thursday 25th & Friday 26lh January. 


WEST END ART GALLERY AVI ROSSINI 

reaulre experienced senior 

FtesoonsfbiB person reaured FuB/Part-tinie for salesperson maie/iemaie. 

administration of Contemporary Art Gaisay, including starting salary £20.000 per 

rffiP ** annum. High class retail 

Gaifery experience preferred. Salary Negotiable- axnartant® essential 

Please wnte with C.v. to experience essential. 

— _ Please bring CV to 

ISddennyT^tu^donSWI. 45 New Bond Street. Wi. 


-ENGINEERING- 


j AN EQUAL OPPOR iVMTY EMPLOYER 

□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 

j HERMES ATS 

~ Specialising in the manufacture & sales of telex A 
= Fax switching'Producis. we are now seeking the 
— following positions to be based in our London 

J premises. 

3 TELEMARKETING - SAI FS 

Telemarketing sales eipcnencc required. 

j DATA SWITCHING SALES 
~' Broad experience i n teiev. Fax and Data to sell our 
range of Switchers to large Corporates. 

=\ Please send CV’s io 

Tony Goss, Sales Director. 

Mdbray House. I Bastwick Street, 
jj London EC IV 3PH. 

□ Tel: 01-490 4578 exL255 

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TRAVELPA 

£ 12,000 

An encdtenl opportunity to 
enhance your career if you 
have an Interest in the travel 
(rule Industry using your 
shorthand, secretarial and 
organisational dpu* 
Arranging trade shows, 
taxheon* and loads of 
telephone Beam. 

CaU Yvette Roberts NOW 
on 01-734 TOIL 

BOND STREET 
01-629 4031 


COURSE ORGANISER 

£11,000 

Variety is the spice of this 
brijfeni opportrahty.Thte 
dynamic cossuttancy is looking 
for a capable add organised 
person who thrives oa 
. du&enges. There's tats of 
people contact and benefit! too 
numerous to mentioa U /on 
have50wpm typing, 
caBDiaoeZagbyon 
01-734 091L 
CITY 

01-6291226 


For a start, before we discuss jobs, we Eke to discuss ' 
you. What interests you, what skills you have. Your ambitions. 

We can then see where you're most Bkeiy to develop 
your true potential Where you can find a sense of 

fulfilment 

Well aim to match you to the right environment. 

If (raining helps, well provide that And sound advice 
on interviews. No stone is left unturned. 

Now that you know what makes us distinctive, why not 
callus. 



mmiaamm 


HAMMERSMITH 

01-8469787 


HOLBORN 

01-8310666 


DUGHTSBRIDGE 
61-589 5898 



KENSINGTON PROPERTY 
£13,000 

Your style &&d poise wffl grace these 
exquisite offices as PA to the MD of this 
magmScenf prapyinvestmof ca 
Meeting VIP’s, organise executive 
meeting*, fiaoe with top Directors, 
handle debated admin, and provide a 
comprehensive c/h secretarial Hrriee. 
A sense Of humour and social 
awareness an crucial ingredients for 
your success. 

CaU Don Wright oo 01-589 5898. 

STRATFORD 
01-519 6343 


stockbroking 

51L500 

Are you tanking to use your 

organisational and set state ■ M 
involved and hectic roteTThrahejpa 
young, dynamic team of stoauHokers 
based in Chelsea run Ibor office. 

S/h is advantageous. WP a mat, 

along with the rfjilky to pnortee. 

Lots oTcfienl liaising in a highly 
stimulating and happy environment 
Call Ooo Wright now on 
01-589 5898. 

VICTORIA 
01-834 0388 


OPPORTUNITIES 
GALORE!! 1 

I tare numerous 


and shorthand 
secretaries, if you have 
skills of 40 wpm+. 
together with a high 
level of proteao mtem , 
I have exciting 
opportunities tar you. 
CaH Amanda Dobbs 
on 81-639 403L 

WEST END 

01-734 9911 



IEN1QR P.A. TO CHAIRMAN 
£20,000 + BENEFITS 


an 


A rare opportunity fot: 
experienced r-A. to join a 
prestigious International 
Financial Services Company 
based in the Citv. 

Ideally a graduate, you will 
possess excellent secretarial 
skills, be computer literate and 
able to communicate well in 
both English and a European 
language.' 

There will be plenty of 


opportunity to exercise your 
initiative and react to pressure 
in an unflappable and flexible 
manner. 

This Is an excellent position 
for someone aged 25+ with 
proven ability and the 
confidence to take on a 
demanding and rewarding role. 
Telephone: 01-6061611 
-3/6 Trump Street 
London EC2V 8DA 


SENIOR SECRETARIES 


THE RKtHT PEUPLE EUR THE RK.HT PEt )PLE 


O AHEAD P.A. FOR DYNAMIC DUO 


Successful International 
Office Supplies company in 
prestigious SW1 offices is 
looking for a Senior PA/ 
Secretary (age 28-35) to work for 
their President and Vice 
President of Personnel. 

Based in their International 
Headquarters, you will be 
liaising with their many foreign 
bsicuaries. 


su, 


This is also your opportunity 
to get really involved in 


administrative and personnel 
matters. 

If you have International 
company experience and 
excellent secretarial skills 
(shorthand 90 wpm and fast, 
accurate typing), call us now to 
discuss this challenging 
position. Salary to £l6k, 
hours 9- 1730. 

Telephone: 01 -499 0092 
173, New Bond Street 
London WIY9FB 


SENIOR SECRETARIES 


THE RIGHT PEOPLE H)R THE RIGHT PEOPLE 


PA TO MD 


£ 14,500 


100/55 


Our efient. a management consultancy based in 
Hoibom, is currently looking for a tip-top 
professional Secretary to wont alongside thaw 
Managing Director. Excellent shorthand 
essermai plus tne ability to deal at the highest 
level. Fabulous offices, and no overtime! 
Age 23-30. Interested? 

Please call PMRpoa Kreyer 


COLLEGE LEAVER 

£ 10,000 

Looking for a good social life plus an 
excellent job? Do you type at 50wpm and 
want to team about the City Markets? Join 
this Hyety company in ECS and start your 
financial career now! 

Contact PtriBppa Kreyer 
on 638 9205. 

(Rec Cons). 




MANAGEMENT 
SEC 35+ 
£14,000 

Design Company renowned 

for exqiaana home axtanMmf 

needs men. response* 

o rgeneed person to «oo«c| 

after London offcce. Lookmg 

after dtonm. mgenemg men 

Mlds. oortftaung orders an 

generaCy roabnanvng a 
c owd o nu xe worn flow tor 

araaa cremwe staff. Good sfti| 

typing essential although 

maWyownoorreapondanca 

Free hatch. enoe Uem fringe 

benaflto and five weeks hois 


AFTER 
PROMOTION 
c£16,000 

Promotion of present PA 
to this affable City Director 
creates need for young 
enthusiastic replacement, 
20's, with good s/h typing 
and knWP. A cheerful aB 
rounder who wN look after 
hint and take on much of 
the admtn. organising, 
Bcreanmg calls, arranging 
luncheons etc. 

there's a future here! 


T.V PROGRAMMES 
£11.000 PLUS 

Young PA Secretary wiU fexl 
fife transformed hi me exams 
and creafive atmosphere of 
ms T.v Go relocating to 
Heathrow. Keen and muck to 
assimilate, you wM soon be 
absoroed m an exotng ream 
atmosonere pwmng and 
buying media Excettent typing 
and RnWP essentoi out overai) 
ttw s a lob mttJ a drfterence 
and a foot on the ladder up. 

5 weeks hots and possible 
bonus! 



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Up to £13,500 
rising to £14,700 


The Head of Design of British 
Telecom is seeking a Personal 
Secretary. 

The position will complement 
the Design Management team 
so ideally the applicant will 
appreciate design and 
designers. 

Full secretarial skills are required 
including shorthand (100 wpm) 
and typing (at least 40 wpm). 
The latest equipment will be 
provided. 

The applicant should have the 
ability to handle people at all 
levels and be a team player. If 
you like design and would like 
to join a busy and dynamic 


department then this is the 
job for you... 

The salary of up to £13,500 
rising to £14,700 is backed 
by a package which includes 
23V& days holiday, pension, 
staff restaurant, social and 
sporting facilities and other 
large company benefits. 
Applications by full CV to 
David Chandler, Haddon 
House, 24 Fitzroy Street, 
London W1 by 16th February. 

British 

TELECOM 

British Tbieeom is an eoual opportunity 
employer. Acjtfca&ons are welcome from 
3B sutaay quatted mawduaS. trrespocsve 
of sex. reoat ongn ordsabfey. 


PA To Chief Executive 

C £20,000 

TVS Entertainment pic (TVS’) b an international television company whose 
subsidiary. TVS Television, operates the ITV franchise for the South and South- 
East of England. TVS'S other major subsidiary is MTM Entertainment based m 
Los Angeles. The Group Headquarters are in Victoria. London. 

The Chief Executive of TVS b seeking a top calibre PA with first-class 
organisational and communication skills preferably in the age range 27 to 35. 
You should have a good 'Pi level education and you may bea graduate. Excellent. 
secretarial skills, including word processing, are required. A knowledge of 
French is desirable but not essential. 

You will have had at least two years' experience at senior director level and be 
confident when dealing with senior people and VIPs. The pace of work is fast and 
you should haw the ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure. The 
Chief Executive s a non-smoker and therefore non-smoking candidates would be 
preferred. The salary will reflect the responsibility of the position and the degree 
ol commitment required. 

Please write with CV and daytime telephone number to: 

Vicky Hemming 

Personnel and Administration Manager 
TVS 

60 Buckingham Cate 
London SW1E6AJ. 

Reference Number: 310190 
Closing date: 16th February 1990. 

T\ r S welcomes applications 
from all people regardless 
of sex, race or disability. 



TVS ENTERTAINMENT 


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WE VALUE OUR 


Very good rates of pay. 

A generous holiday 
entitlement. 

Life insurance. 

Unique training facilities. 
Exciting choice of openings. 

And opportunities for 
SH/Audio WP Secretaries 
with experience of: 

Dec-All-in-1 
WANG WP Pins 
OLIVETTI ETV2SO 
Call us NOW on 

01-486 7865 

Temporary and Permanent. 
Manpower makes the difference. 



rWT- y'KX'fi 


Shorthand Secretary 

to £14.000 + Benefits EC3 

Advertising Company seek S/H Sec. to M.D. 
and .VC .UiJKijjrr in M.iitofirtg Dept. Excellent 
career prospects guaranteed. Suit pood sec. 
wanting tn progress career into major account 
handling in marketing. PR experience useful. 
Contact Sharon Eaton at: 

On Top Recruitment Ltd 
71 Watlmfi Street. London EC4M 9DD 


Telephone 01-929 4123 


CREATIVE MEDIA 
& MARKETING 
APPOINTMENTS 


Cantieacd From Previ ns Pine 


NORTHERN TECHNICAL AUTHORS 


we need experiences lecnmcai autnors for contract project and 
oennanent opportunities following tne opereng ol our nonnem 
ottce. 

Ring or send your CV to 
HMn wood. TMS Computer. 

Autnore. fasten House. 

Benon Road. Knatsford. 

CnasnmWA1608U 
Tec 

8565 51736. _ 


ansnsi 

Computer Authors 


DECORATIVE GLASS 
COMMISSION 

e aa c e a u rw ere ewiirotre a Oec u iiB re wind o w ccrnn fa io » i tore 
maw new noM and Wn own being Ml By Mancnetar VMCA. 
Dnass (rem * new*. WCA. SB Pel* Snot Manowmr mz 3»j. 
Tei 081-834 6035. Coring den tar suOtneson ol Wore. February 23. 
SucporMdfiy/vurtn nutAmant Jim Simon Gnx&. 


ACCEPT THE 
CHALLENGE! 

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Bowled 

Over! 

£13,000 

Join an international 
spontnc assoaanen 
based in NMi'l. 
working as Personal 
As sis: am ro a Senior 

Executive. Assisi tr. 
selling up fixTum. 
liaising with players, 
arrange and attend 
meetings, and 
organise ycur boss 

You will need a 
friendly. o^:gc;rg 
personality and good 
S/H and typing. 
Age 21-4?. 

For further 
information please 
telephone 
Jacky Purcell 
on 01-434 4512. 

Crone Corkili 

maumMsreeoNsa3M<rs 


Bi-Lingual Spanish 

£16,000 - Early Review 
Banking Benefits 

As PA to the Head of Corporate Finance within 
this international City-based bank, you will use 
your riuent Spanish daily ro liaise with diems and 
me bank's foreign offices. Tins is a busy senior 
level secretarial position in which your mam 
responsibilities will be to provice your well- 
respected boss with the organisational support 
he needs to maintain ana oevetoo his ckent 
portfolio. Tms Win include arranging and CO- 
crdinatng freauent overseas trips as weu as 
other ad-hoc administrative projects. You wiU be 
a confident, efteem person experienced ai 
senior level, but also flexible enough to be a 
ccntnbumg team members. 

Age: 25-30 Skills: 90/60 

101-831 13201 



I RECRUITMENT 

•COMPANY 

3 GARRICK STREET WC219AR 


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ADVERTISING PA - 

Ewn wartinR lor rhn chummy Chid Executive of Wl 
.\dtcnmnr. Amik» Successful Cirvlidjies will hive previous 
advcniyne cxpcticncc * a sentot Irvel No shorthand required ■ 
rust a lufly sense of humour and a professional attitude. 

ASSISTANT CONFERENCE ORGANISER - CllJOOO 
foin this last rx|und>iK Ceil nerve Oreannm • >n a tne 
usnunit ode ISrinrK conlermcrfeshibmon orpunuor; 
eiprncnce r.-miMl plus npina skills. 

ADVERTISING RECEPTIONIST - i NEC 
Yl AJmiiune .Vcnwj rrquirei urll presented, hich calibre 
pnvrt responsible lor their reception area Hmn 8 JO - ft.OO 
renanJeJ wnh eveellcni >aia» Swiichboerd experience 
enrnlial 

For farther rrtforrnaikm on Ibetc 
■nd raray other vacatscm pkax comaa: 

JAN'INE CAPLAN ON 01-831 9411 

U Jon wim versed temporary atuenaents Mhin centre! 

London trab cnod rales of pav please comacc 
ANGELA Ml.:BUELL ON 0 ,.ft 3 , mu 

AFB Recrmimeru, 17 Gate Street. London WCM MR 
FAX: 01-4O4 4212 



-COUNTDOWN- 

1992 

FLUENT GERMAN + ANOTHER 
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE? COME 
AND TALK. 

This is an opportunity to corn i 16.000 + benefits 
from >our early iwcniic's wcrking in a blue-chip 
American finance company based in the City. As 
Secreiars/I’A io two Directors, fluent German is a 
must - together with one other European 
language: preferably L'uich, Spanish or Italian. 
You will ahead-, ha-.c a similar company 
background, and pro-.en skills: including S/H 
lOC'w p.m.. 50 typing, and ideally. WordPerfect 
^f.P. A real challenge lot a linguist in a relaxed 
but hardworking 3tmusphere. Please talk to us: 


International Secretaries 


01-491 7100 


CH ISLE HURST 
PA TO MEP 

Member of the European 
Phriiamcfti needs capable 
am) highly motivated 
asusxant to run tus 
couutuency office. 

Must have 

(a) oipsRinft ability, 

Ibl npenener in a post of 
mpoagbiliiy. 

tO first-class «T and 
shorthand skills. 

(d) supportive pertooabty. 

Based in Cboldmn] in 
qum locsDon. mamly 
vorfcmg solo. Salary 
around 114.000 tplos car 
aUawaaccL 

Hand onaca epplicatiocn 
•rib typed cv u Avf 
Price MEP. M MmSoeS 
Park Aw, CMsWboru. 
Kne. B8T 6RD. 


Knight Frank 
’^2 & Rutiey 


Secretary/Receptionlst 

Required for friendly, successful office in 
Bcuconsfield Old Town 
Wc arc looliinc for j lively person who enjoys 
working on own minuiivc within jclusc-knii team 
and wants a vjricd. interesting workload. 

It you .ire wcll-morivaied. organised, and have 
good audio ivpinp skills.applv hi: 

\mrlla Loris. Knighi Frank & Hurley. 

Old Mulberry >urtl. Lundnn End. 
Hcaconsficld. Kucklnghamstilre. 

Tel: 0494 675368 


DIRECTORS 

SECRETARY 

SL Johns Wood 

exosnenoad Snontar* war 
qooo an rouno swis 
100/60 reou«red 
Dewcrsr Ot a fijCM PLC 
Sawrr n.JOO oa. Aoo>y m 
«nnfX3 fO Mis G Men 
nantwr Droca Pic tSio 
Par* Ro. London Nw8 Twit 
or TflWW. 01-722 
no Agenoos posse. 


ADMINISTRATION 
DIRECTOR’S P.A. 

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as an •»«*» oan m m emra nu nag wrie n i wn ai 
Bas innwiQ ana growmg ownm 
ProKwcs ene >wwmw «a » *>eed*ni 
Afifkams Ww vtwy "■riiwqom» ancimnoaCV. 
ana a Jaywno iai» p * i »a 'vnow co. 

R A Hutchison Esq. LLB-, 

46 Afogata Hign Street 
London EC3N1AL 


EXECUTIVE 

SECRETARY 

ProfessonoL hV powered 
Pwo reMw am tor M.D. 
of mtemenonei Corepeoy hi 
die UxbnOga «M, 
Demanding enuiuutmg 
pornm tor a fro# 
profession*! 1 Saury 
eomreensurett witn tfw 

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Phone now for father 

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Uxbridge Er n Hoymant 
Agency (0895) 5TO45. 

REF 20062 


PA OFFICE CO-ORDINATOR 

KAVALA - GREECE 

BialnaH Caaomva a <ooHng for eapenanooa oenon ggao 30 
I*"?. • rMry_4*iri B acHwm erenon auwancf m mp cusaxrra 
gong Su aatra xofscams muo da waa-groonwo ocucano many 

ascren end nave a esfen Miq «onou> n«vn to auua>vr» n *er> 

ttrirnfbee Secraanai «mt U a uogmy prif a r rt vi ExcaXwe 
ctmuma ohn aaff-ooMmaa ewrig eceommooatnn ol rvgn Cats. 

S elery comptatefy negottebte. 

Pt ae a e lelephene Shu* uevf an 01-403 a**i, enJnm 
01-722 7502/ 4282 or write am fua CV to Albramarf*, 45 
Conduit Street. Lonoon Win 9FB. 


ALEXIS PERSONNEL 


ALEXIS 


PERSONNEL 


RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT 
with 

ALEXIS PERSONNEL 

We are a wen established Consultancy 
that is achieving a growing reputation 
through word-of-mouth recommendation. 
We now seek an additional Consultant 
with the desire and ability to further 
develop our business and join in our 
success. 

You wiH be a stoned and personable 
communicator with an instinctive ‘feel* for 
people situations. With or without 
experience ol the industry, you are likely 
to be aged 24-40. 

We can offer a minimum starting salary of 
£12.000 pa with an attractive bonus 
scheme. BUPA, IFSTL and the best 
training in the industry. Our office is 
situated conveniently dose to PiccadNIy 
Circus. 

Please contact me on 01-439 2777 
HILARY ELLIOT 


ALEXIS PERSONNEL 



COMPUTER SYSTEMS, 
TRAINING & MAINTENANCE 

PCL is a premier supplier ol quality personal 
computer products and services to the UK’s largest 
companies. 

PA TO SALES DIRECTOR 
HEATHROW 

A challenging position working for our busy Sales 
Director to assist rum in the everyday running of five 
sales teams including arranging promotional events. 
You wHi need good shorthand and WP sklBs, an 
excellent telephone manner and previous 
experience at Senior level. A demantfng role tor the 
nght person. 

The above position oilers a salary of up to £15X00 
p.B. plus excellent benefits Including Luncheon 
Vouchers. BUPA, life assurance and pension.- 

Pfease send your CV to Mary Singleton at.lhe 
address below. If you require further Information 
please telephone on 01 759 6633. 

Planning Consultancy Limited 
Unit 1, Summit Centre 
Skyport Drive 
Harmondsworth 
UB7 OLJ 


''^>tAn^MUec 


JOBS OF THE MONTH 

TALKING "BOUT—POP MUZBC E16J00 4- Exc BH 

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NEW START IN FRANCEI 


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ivam io w ofir Mnwri ExotMre secretarial sMs’ Deienrwed end 
wnorat? Orral ooponunty wiOi UMml compera apemg IM 
" South oT Firace Uu jrour or guratoni nile to A lot 
tuxatrt trimat. 



BUCKINGHAM PALACE 
THE PRIVY PURSE 
PERSONAL SECRETARY 

Thnc is a tacanc} fpr the posi of Personal Secretary m 
senior member of ihc Pn» > Pune and Treasurer's Office at 
Buckingham Palace. 

Applicants should hate lirei dan shorthand, word 
pmccsstriB and general secretarial skills. The post requires 
someone wnh intelligence and mutative, who can handle a 
Wide S artel > of work. 

Satan scale starting at £12.274 and rising io£l3.799 
^nrluding Londun Weighting. The post is pensionable with 
_ da>s paid holida, per annum, free lunches and cwrfeot 
bcnriiis. 

Applicants should applv in writing to: 

The PWvumd Oflieex, 

Bucking (am Pkbtce 
London 
SWIA IAA 


RfGin- NAND £15,000 

W*5Z2rXr 00 SMk ^ Managing 

,nw,Kl m monfl r WW IBM 

^ went Vom ensmtnng to renmng me oMce. DM BTsi. 

CAREER MOVE £14^00 

v.y.fn * Gem lor taw tranM 

“ * SPl **^ Cn *ir $ooc sense ot nunour. 


01-730 S148 


(ReaCoa) 


HARLEY 
STREET CLINIC 

seek bright, exporioncea 
M at kcal Secretory, to run 
Duay cknK. Suit 254-. 
£14^)00 pa. 

Phone Mra Davies 935 
5359 or 486 2494. 


PROGRAMME 

DIRECTOR 

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GROUP PRACTICE SW1 

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3043 fniwesting post Salary £16,000. 

^fibSES a 0 '' “■ St Witeon. 9A 
f.-L-P-P_47 ^ hatn Place . London SW1 X9AE 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


01-481 4481 


LA CREME DE LA CREME 


01-481 4481 


SECRETARIES/WP OPS 


Yon are invited to discnsj career opportunities with these major companies at your leisure. Each company 
will have representatives for individual help and advice. 


• Strand Palace Hotel 
Strand, London WC2 

• Thursday 8th Feb 90 

• 11-00 am - 7.00pm 

• Numerous Secretarial 
and WP vacancies 

• £9,000 -£15,000 


MM 




Since 1955. ITN has been the Mecca Leisure Group, now die A small clearing bank. Courts 
organisation designated to pro- largest pure leisure company specialises in mcrang the needs 
vide National and International since its takeover of the of those with income or assets 
News programmes to die Pleasurema Group in October well above die average. 
Network. 1988. comprising five major 

divisions. c~ r ..I, „i_ 


• £9,000 - £15,000 THE BURTON ,, v . .. . 

group plc CityofVfestmmster 

^eet cading companies The Burton Group, one of the Westminster City Council pro- 
largest retailers, sells fashion for vidcs a wide range of services to 

m _i_die individual and home residents, businesses and cora- 

nB ® ^ tyofCVs throughout the UK. muicrs in the heart of London. 


- - 1-V1MU41 

Direct 

'Bring plenty of CVs 


Suite 21, Ludgate House, 107-111 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2AB 


For further details please tele¬ 
phone Julie Smith or Sally 
King. 

01-353 4722 


Strug!# 

** m .Street 


4. HOW MY BOSS WAS ALMOST 
SACKED BY MABEL’S STOMACH 

MONDAY MORNING AND THE GREAT DICTATOR'S AS HAPPY AS A SECURITY 
GUARD BITTEN BY HIS OWN DOG. HE FOUND HIS EXECUTIVE WASTE-BIN 
UNEMPTIED AND TAKES IT AS A SIGN OF BEING OUT OF FAVOUR WITH THE 
COMPANY. 

WHEN HIS PAL IN PLANNING DIDN'T GET HIS BIN EMPTIED FOR TWO DAYS 

(or his copy of 'Performance Car* delivered) you'd have thought 

HIS REDUNDANCY NOTICE HAD BEEN FAXED OVER FROM NEW YORK. 

i SUPPOSE 1 SHOULD TELL HIM I SENT HOME MABEL THE CLEANER (WELL. 
SHE WAS LOOKING PALER THAN A MILKMAN IN A BLIZZARD). 

BUT I THINK I'LL LET TGD STEW FOR A WHILE. AS I LOOK AT WHAT'S ON 
OFFER FROM ELIZABETH HUNT. . 


PA/ Secretary 

to Director of Public Affairs 

Up to £11,701 (under review) 
Central Condon 

— The National Trust enjoys a particularly high profile as the 
country's leading conservation charity. 

~ And as PA/Secretary to the Director of Public Affairs, you'll be 
right at che centre of the Trust’s extensive dealings with the media, 
the public, and government bodies. 

— You will provide the Director with a complete secretarial support 
service, handling correspondence and telephone calls as well as 
making travel arrangements, organising meetings and conferences. 
Co-ordinating the work with the other secretaries in the department 
will also be an important aspect of your job. 

— This is a challenging role which will provide you with ample 
opportunity ro use your initiative, tact and excellent oiganisarional 
and communication skills. 

~ It also calls for an education to at least ‘A' level standard, backed 
by a minimum of two years’ secretarial experience at a senior level, 
preferably gained within a PR environment. 

~ In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package 
(reviewed in April), you'll also enjoy the friendly atmosphere of our 
attractive office building overlooking St Janies’ Park. 

~ Please write wirh full career details or telephone for further 
information to: Martine Posde, Personnel Assistant. The National 
Trust, 36 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AS. Tel: 01-222 9251. 


THE NATIONAL TRUST 


Sound Advantage plc is a new company formed with the 
backing of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf to 
market a range of products and services for people with 
hearing loss. 

P.A. to Managing Director 

Peterborough IJp to £12,000+bonus 

This is an exerting opportunity to be invofved with, the birth 
of a completely new enterprise. You will provide full 
day-to-day support to our M.D. and help him develop the 
business. You should have at least 2 years' secretarial 
experience at board level and the ability to meet 
challenging deadlines. 

Please apply with full CV to Sound Advantage plc, 

105 Gower Street, London WOE 6AH, or telephone 
Michael Wheller on 01-387 8033 for further details. 

Closing date: 16 February 1990. 


L8! 



MARKETING EXECUTIVE/ 
AMBITIOUS PA? 

i p vnu ME DYNAMIC, ENTHU SIASTIC. WOT AFRAID 
nc mnn MCTflK awu hEAUY HAVE IWTOTWE-- 


Sabry £1M00 MfloBaMe 

h you haw sales Btabry/poHWial and enter a background n or 

lihJo standing ot markejng. _ _^ 

-.ou nw be a hustrawd marketing S? 

oemq able to mate decisions « * *"*””* ESJrSmS 

fiOtTed n Msrkeimg. Adwfltsmg. Sales Promooon or some carer 

frenetic environment. 

SS5 KwgMoS- hrt VDU-illbe W«i wurmro»gaon 
SB5nliana m te me challenge • *fueft s a Wg ore 
unu5U ai offices based m slummg Coisv wto Pxjrny srde mr 
OrtouJ 1C nou Suaflnd. 20 mminas crertenham). 

a—sssas sasssasiM^ 


5,000 + 10% BONUS 

|y, enthusiastic, versatile SH 
cretary requited to assist M.D. 
of Commodity Brokers, 
rave good sense of humour and 
pared to become fully involved 
s hectic trading environment. 

-as* send CV ire- Vick? Rowe 
Socden (UK) Ljd- 
5 London Bridge Street 
London S E1 9S G 
NO AGEN&ES 



ART 

GALLERY. 

requires good allrounder 
wnh experience in 
organisation. selling and 
sec skills. Some French 
essential. Non-smoker. 
Salary negotiable. 
Tel: 01-727 7530. 



No. Replies 
be sent to 

dumber. 

No. Dept, 

>4 Virginia Street, 
jo ddon, El 9DD 


SECRETARY/ 

RECEPTIONIST 

conmaa anmnenni Cdl, 


Tynm BBenak ODoa i*i 
ma nwar, ion - In. Salary 
FfO^OO pa nag, free ta nciWm , 
4 unlri hata. 

Tafc 0I-73S 6877. 



THE DUTCH HOUSE. 

307-303 HIGH HOLBORN. WC1V 7LR 
on 01-430 2291- 


29/31 OXFORD ST. WIR IRE 
01-734 5675 


14 GREAT CASTLE STREET, OXFORD CIRCUS, WIN IU 

. -••• 01-255 3140 _ 

43 BROMPTOM RD, KH1GHTSBRIDGE, SW3 IDE 
_01-225 1777_ 

36-44 HOORGATE, EC2R 6Ei 
01-638 7003 


SECRETARYIPA 

To MD Recruitment Agency 


BARNET AREA Up to £14, 


If you are an experienced Secretary, and 
have either basic bookkeeping skills, or are 
highly numerate - here is a great opportunity 
to join a go-ahead Team! 

We run a small (but expanding fast) Sales 
Recruitment Agency, and the MD needs an 
enthusiastic and highly efficient PA. good 
keyboard skills, ideally aged 25-35. living 
locally Entrepreneurial attitude essential. 

CALL ROGER SQUIRE ON: 01-449 6024 


m 


James Knight Associates 

Knight House. 29-31 East Barnet Road 
Barnet. Herts ENA 8RN. 

TebOt-449 4111 Fax:01-4496262 


Maine -Tucker 


CREATIVE ORGANISER 
/RECEPTIONIST.... 

£ 12,500 

—are you el tne end of your tether? __afw all you reaBy are 
capatue of more then |ust answering the tateohone— you long tot 
a chance to organise and have your own responsdjfflties. is there 
i someone out mere who w* otter a Recaptoomst prospects? 

YES? 

—this is an opportunity that any Receptionist would leap at_. 
attsntkng previews of films of international aedaon -.attending 
some promotional events loo — or ga mseig Me' higniy 
professional Creative team who do nothing but creative 
adverosemems tor tap rank vxleo/fifm a leisure Cuoras. < 
Prospects are unbreted end this challenge offers real 
responsMay. If you can type at 30, have a reel love of 
organtsa&on. always look smart, we over 23— men get yourself 
out ot the rut! 


50 Adi Mall Scjiaafe London 5WIY5LB Tdtfbaac. 0-925 0548 


EXECUTIVE SEARCH 
PA - W1 

c. £16,000 + 

To work for Server Oractor handling- top level exec 
search UK-unde Good orgarxstng ab*ty. and wSmgnesa 
to use stwhand/WP skills ess - excellent scope tor 
branding into other areas Wer on as Co expanding this 
year. Age 25-4) ideal. Perks ncfcide generous Xmas 
bonus. 

For further details call Nicola Beweo-Bocs OK 
01-494 4020 fta 01-494 1899 


One OF LONDONS MOST 
PRESTIGIOUS HOTELS SEEKS A 

Public relations secretary. 
ATTEND PR AND SALES/ 

Marketing events, overseas 

PHOTO AND FILM SESSIONS. TAKE 
ON AS MUCH RESPONSIBILITY AS 
YOU LIKE. FREE RESTAURANT. AND 
SALARY REVIEW AFTER 3 MONTHS. 
90/50 SKILLS. 

TEL: 01-405 0247. 

BORN ORGANISES. £1SK 

join the Partnership 
Secretary of this major City 
COMPANY AND ACT AS HIS RIGHT 
HAND. HE IS KEEN to delegate 
AND WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO 
TAKE ON YOUR OWN ADMIN. 
PROJECTS. A BRIGHT OCCrdON 
MAKER WITH 100/50 SKILLS 
NEEDED. 

TEL: 01-248 3744. 


PERSONA! ASSISTANT £17K+ 

NO SHORTHANO NEEDED! THIS IS A 
REAL PA ROLE TO A PARTNER OF 
THIS PR ES TIGIOUS FIRM OF 

Executive search consultants. 

Use YOUR ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS 
TO HANDLE RESEARCH PROJECTS. 
ORGANISE HECTIC TRAVEL 
ARRANGEMENTS AND MAINTAIN 
EXCELLENT CLIENT RELATION¬ 
SHIPS. 60 WPM AUDIO ABILITY: 

Tel: 0f-240 3511. 

CAREER MINDED. SISK* 

TOP City company involved in 
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS SEEK 
A PA TO THEIR SENIOR PARTNER. 
You CAN EARN £4K IN OVERTIME 
AND GENEROUS BONUS. YOU'LL 
ENJOY EXTENSIVE CONTACT WITH 
VIP CUE NTS. A MORTGAGE SUBSIDY 
A NO FREE LUNCH. 55 WPM TYPING. 
TEL: 01-408 0247. 


WAUL STREET £17K PACKAGE 

This very prestigious firm of 
STOCKBROKERS SEEKS A PA TO A 
Senior Director, liaise with 
TOP CLIENTS. AND ARRANGE 
FREQUENT LUNCHES. DINNERS AND 
BUSINESS MEETINGS. HE IS KEEN TO 
DELEGATE AND FOR YOU TO BE A 
REAL ASSISTANT. 100/60 SKILLS 
TEL: OI-24B 3744. 

READY TO RECRUIT. E13.5K 

THIS INTERNATIONAL FIRM OF 
PROPERTY DEVELOPERS SEEKS A 
PIA.'SECRETARY TO THEIR 

Personnel Director assist 
WITH PRE-SELECTION INTERVIEWS 
AND TAKE ON THE ADMINISTRATION 
OF THEIR COMPANY BENEFITS 
SCHEMES. A GOOO ORGANISER AND 
an interest in Personnel 
needed. 5©wpm typing. 

TEL: 01-240 3511. 


fonjin/m 

recruitment 


SECRETARY/PA 
EUROPEAN BANK - CITY 

£13,500 + BANKING BENEFITS 

Oar General Manager and Financial Controller require a 
craifidrnnal Secroary/PA n assat them and the aetuor 

T?mnngPT "em iNm- 

The >Awl caadidate atmnlA be cdocstrd to A level and 
will have sound ebonhand/typisg and oo mmum c a t HMi a 
■Irilk g mh M n airihcy to plan and organise ihev own 
wortloKL They should be able to remain calm and 
tmflappaMe nuLr pressure and demooatreie an ability to 
B$e thpir jnmaava. 

Please reply m writing sending your C.V. to: 
Personnel Coneahant 

Union Bank ot Nonesy. 20 St. SwIAin Lane, 
London EC4N SAD 


Wc ffo to amazins 1 

C7 O 

lengths to 

O 

find vou 
right job. 


Gone are che days when you’ll be 
forced into any old job. Thanks to 
‘Audition’ we’re able to place both 
men and women alike more carefully. 

This unique skill evaluation and 
training system will help us build a 
dear picture of your skills. And help 
you develop them if needs be. 

At the end, we’ll have the print¬ 
out to show just how good you are. 

Evidence, for your future 
employee; chat you are indeed the 
tight person for the iob. 


Basingstoke (0256) *171242. Capital 01-323 38181 
Birmingham Central (021) 633 3888 Manchester (061) 228 6168 


DIRECTORS’ SECRETARIES 


International Outlook - 

£ 18 - 20,000 

You are al the hub of the action as $ec/PA 
to the Director or International Operations 
in this well known consumer products 
group. Their market is worldwide and you 
should be an excellent time planner, a 
forward thinker and a good organiser to 
arrange conferences abroad. Languages will 
be used. Skills 110/70. Age 28-35. 


01-629 9323 


OBJETS D'ART 

C.£T0 - 13.5k 

Do you have good shorthand/typing 
skills and an interest in the world of Art 
and Antiques? If so, we hove a variety of 
positions within these fields which require 
competence, initiative and immaculate 
presentation. Some secretarial 
experience is necessary and a sense of 
humour definately a must. 

Do you fit the bill? 

Call us now.— 


DIRECTORS'SECRETARIES 


South African Partners - 

£ 18,000 

An Investment Management Company j 
with interests in a variety of differem 
trading subsidiaries needs a super 
PA/Sccreiary for its Chairman. Based in 
splendid offices off Piccadilly you will be 
totally involved in an ever-changing 
programme of activity. Skills 110/70. 
Age 30-40 


01-629 9323 


COMMERCIALS 

£12,000—£14.000 

This headfinp hittinp aihertininj' 

•pran bwprodumljoiwofllM 

>f**r * dk>l| •wcessfiil and jdamnrons 
TV ad«L Thr \ are non looking for an 
bmovatiit-and »rif-aHroirpd PA to 
match their standards. Working for a 
fom-anJ-tlunlanp director, there are 
no Ixnmilarirs to the job with every 
chance of advancement and traininfs* 
lfyonhavetlnenl secretarial skills 
(prefb/H) and a dewfare in im p w w. and 
achiev e, ronlacl the .Media Special*!* 


Bernadette ot Bond Stn 

Recruitment Corauttanta 
No. 55 (next door to Fenwicks) 

01 - 629 1204 


SECRETARY REQUIRED 

For saaR Poblixbiiig Company. Must be triable, 

u m rii rr^ tiH arizh a c d fcai Aonhnd ud 

T typing «ad u paBiifl Ml rialb. 

Silt y n eg ntia hte. Age 30 pto. 

Locatioo Sowb Quays, DodklxadL _ 

Pint fe rt *n l C.V. with p b ow giMi t i sod terHs of 
ament ataxy to Rqriy ro BOX K27 


pporfunify 


This young, dynomic MD 
of o vnal and expandng 
PR company ts looking for 
an CGMbfant. Bkie ctxp 
diems are attracted to 
the exerting company as 
<t has the bockjng of a 
large and prestigious 
organisation. 

As her nght hond person 
you wA need to have 
exceflent cornmurKanon 
stuBs as you wSMtom daily 
with joutxiksts, chase up 
the metfia and co-onknote 
"your ckenis" 

(ftveise needs, 
ftojeers may range from 
promatng o company's 
corporate mage ro me 
pti*c to helpngco- 
ordnateon 
environmenrol 
protect abroad. 

You wiH need one year's 
secretarial experience 
and a keen interest in the 
world of promotions and 
pubhtiry. 

60 typing. 

Mefia4Kec.Com 

Teh 01 491 3848 


01-379 4164 or379 0344 
until 8pm 



CHAIRMAN'S PERSONAL 
ASSISTANT 
£lU»£tOOO+CAR 
USHER FASHION GSQUm 

Sopot Oppcmmajft CmB wm I PA 
out cscBcsi Mm o l pec. 
torUe**). orpnna md 
Wnnnm ■ boidk tncsl 

ud pesml dorr, uwnt and 
Gooicdl aaaeno. ptmawnrr 
pcmnl nnnuMot touytaMc A one 

Call 2S9 1858 Rom Roc. 


INTERIOR 

DESIGNER, 

CHELSEA. REQUIRES PA 
WITH EXC. SEC. QUA1_. 
STAMINA. INfTIATlVE. 
HUMOUR 8 IDEALLY A 

Cap. parking avail 

GOOD SAL FOR 
RIGHT PERSON. 

TEL. 01-362-0173- 


SH/SECRETARY 

to usist it i weiM in a *»—a but bd growing cotnpuy. 
Proves sfcOs, wp etpenence sad a sense of hmnoor 
MBimial Good remmentioo package ofcwL 

PICK apply with CV tv Mr itG. Raws. Tk«PsrtBHS 
lrwmminml t nt, 41 Botoipfa ixx. Loedoa ECB SDL 


FULL TIME 

MEDICAL SECRETARY 

Rjt young energstlc Harley Street Vascular Surgeon. 
W-P. required. Excelent working atmosphere 
with vascular group. 

Good salary for right appfcant. 
Tetophone 01-580 5030. 


GLOBAL ADVERTISING. > 
£13000 + BONUS. ~ 

Join the exciting offices of an ° 
international communications g 
company. As your executive boss « 
is based out of the office, good 5 
interpersonal skills are needed to w 
deal with calls and queries from z 
around the world. 50wpm typing. |Sl 

CAROLINE KING 

iipainlntitM 01.499 8070 


CHAIRMAN’S SOCIAL PA 
£20K + Bens + Car 

Be in the limelight as a social PA. Organise 
sooai/busmess engagements, and attend Dinner 
Partes and celebrity events. Keep a record of ms 
personal finances including investments. O rchestr a te 
aH affairs from staff to expenses on his two residences 
A true PA role for this well known gentleman of one of 
Britams top companies! Your ‘A' level standard 
education, experience in socialising at V.I.P. level, 
poise, charm and preferably experience in a Finance 
Company wiH be your passport here. Ideally 25-33, 
Ovmg in the London area and excellent Shorthand 
skills. 

OPTIONS OF BOND STREET (PERSONNEL CONSULTANTS) 
*5 Hew Band Sheet, London W1 
81 493 8969 


CITY SEC 
£15,000+ 

Yoimg Exec Sec wih style. 
Wliative and good SH/WP 
skfc for baautihi offices ot 
famous US Co. 

NORTON REC CONS 
823 2552 


FUND RAJSIl 
£12.000 
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


LA CREME DE LA CREME 


01-481 4481 


PERFECT AT 
WORDPERFECT? 
£15,000 + MORTGAGE 

Thrive m a cosmopolitan environment as 
PA/Secretary to 3 admin/finance managers 
at a large bank dose to Liverpool Street 


mortgage subsidy worth over £5.000 a Year. 
You are 25 - 35 with 90wpm shorthand and 
are fully experienced on the WordPerfect 

Call 377 2666 City 

439 7001 West End 


SECRETARIES PLUS 

The Secretarial Csnsollanis 


£18,000 

PA PR OK? 

You wear many hats as PA to the Chief 
Executive of this venture capital fkm. Apert 
from the secretarial aspect you mi handle 
research, recruitment and organise extensive 
cfient entertaining, Excetem shorthand and 
admin skis are a prerequisite, as is Ranch - 
far conversation and translation. 

Can 377-2666 (City) 
439-7001 (West End) 


SECRETARIES PLUS 

mi-: Secre:aria. ! C:i;sj!\inis 


AMERICAN LAW 

£16,000 

It’s an American Law firm but you wB be 
working for 2 Erigtth barristers in their 
prestigious officas cfose to the Mas, Fast 
movfaginternational environment-you need 
some previous legal experience plus 
shorthand and awfio skflta. 

Call 439-7001 West End 
377-2666 City 


SECRETARIES PLUS 

The S:crc'iri?: C~rs:ji:r ; r.1r. 


ENJOY AUTONOMY, 
LOVE RECRUITING? 

Enthusiastic. fasMHnidng andkaentohe 

response far making own ttecbtot*?You 
have « tsast 2 

recrutanam experience, KfeaBy aknowtepS® 
of the City and are 24-60. Tramasa 
recruitment consuRant wWi w and fWjtat 
your energy and expertise directly translate 



CALLING THE CREAM OF 
LONDON’S SECRETARIES 
ADVANCE TO 


MAYFAIR 

HIGH FLYING BOSS! £18,000 


SECRETARIES PLUS 

T 1 " Secretarial Coi5ii!la:its 



Fit for the Fast Lane? 
NW6 - £13,000 

Look good and feel good as you work for a 
\oung dynamic learn in a progressive firm of 
marketing consultants. Ai the end of your 
busy day you can make full use of their 
aerobics classes, sauna and sunbeds and find 
yourself relaxed and revitalised. You will 
need to be bright and enthusiastic to co¬ 
ordinate busy work schedules, set up 
meetings, liaise with clients and provide full 
secretarial support. Age 20-35. 
Skills: 60/WP. Please cal] Fiona Stanghton 
on 01-437 6032. 

hobstoneS 

A Mm RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS 


High Spirits 

SWl to £14,000 

Cheer yourself up when you join this 
super drinks company working for one of 
its European Marketing Executives. He is 
in his-late 20s, very busy and always- 
travelling. Yon will have to be energetic, - 
confident and well organised as you naTw 
with clients in Europe, organise extensive 
travel and diary arrangements and act on 
your own initiative. SO wpm copy 
typing/wp. French useful Age: 20-25. 
Please call Lynne Dawson on 
01-437 6032. 


HSSSBSSS Jl Hgraroras 


Byte your Apple 

£14,500 

Ca rve your own niche in a new petition 
working for an expanding and exciting 
International Financial Services 
organisation based in stunning offices near 
Bank They are looking for a secretary with 
excellent Apple Mac experience and an 
interest in the Financial world. Working 
with their young team yon will use your 
initi ative in helping to prepare 
organisational chans, spreadsheets and 
keeping tabs on their client database: Age 
21+. 50/WP/A ndio. Please call EUzabetti 
Williamson on 01-256 5©S1L 


DIFFERENCE*** 

*£13,000+ Benefits* 

You Win be wotting ctaset, along 
wde tna Cfte> Executive d the 
TaMpnora ReWfimg Co Vmw*m 
onuing wWi bH (tie maioi TV gtMWm. 
toga sports compares and many 
odef muS nwiTicverxu Hsuingavt 
ot corAnanoe ana a to of name wfl 
non nu ra cram na ngi 
nvnroon There n only a Hite 
rytjmg mcnaa and the rest or you 
day mb ce a vsnea and busy ana 
CaB Jtda_ 


Susan Beck 


***EXPLORING NEW 
PASTURES*** 
*£14,000 + BONUS* 

Ttw urey WdCBWhl Co. require Mr 
motoig Hi nONfi ton* sal tn 
dnnuan. You wto wortc atong me the 


support as vw* u buomai g very 
'■nvoMad m M m* twwwn of tfie 
c om pa rer It you Bra loonng tor an 
among and ctMaanpig pomon and 
teat you rant 10 Ob more than ant i 


Susan Beck 



*£12,500 + Bonus + 
Perks* 

wotung pny ta ho and 
MartHdng Maragar. you wflf oe 
■wand to premaa cormo m o ul 
MBamM support tor S* my up. 


company. Datfng Mm dan, 
mgantstag matings. kmchaa. ml 
bm mngBBMK you «W mtpt 
prabtoa aoMng and uamg yov own 
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Susan Beck 


Early Riser 
£17,000 

Calling all Early Birds. Two senior executives within a 
finance company in EC2 need a secretary to run the office 
on oiled wheels. 

Working in a beautiful new building, your feet will not 
touch the ground as you set up the office systems, arrange 
numerous lunches and provide full secretarial support. 
Fast accurate shorthand (100+) and typing are essential, 
plus the ability to draft all correspondence. Hours will be 
from 8am to 4.30pm. If you are aged 30+ with senior level 
experience, beat the rush and telephone Anna Martin 
on 588 3535. 

Crone Corkill 

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advance™ 

MAYFAIR 

FLOATING SECRETARY £13,000 + excL bens 

Pick and choose your department in this well established property co in 
Mayfair. Assisi in all departments when necessary and when the position 
that you warn becomes available the choice is yours. Good audio typing is 
necessary for this position as is a pleasant telephone manner and outgoing 
personality. 

CLIENT LIAISON £14,000 

Prestigious property company based in the West End seeks a well 
educated Audio Secretary to work for 2 Surveyors, accurate typing is a 
musL as is a good sense of humour. As well as the usual secretarial duties 
you will arrange in-house lunches and get to meet senior clients. 


For these vacancies and many more like them, 
call Nicola on 01-495 2360 
Mayfair Recruitment (\V 1 ) Ltd. The Systems Centre, 
19 Bruton Place, Mayfair London W1X 7AB 


Fare F 

Redhill 

This « a stan-us position lor a P.A. who 
wcu< en», me speed ot wwtong ter a new 
company Backed Sy a mamr UK Co whose 
new croonci wentuie wrfl become a market 
leader ai [tie Kp end of computer software. 
Responsibility tor eihoenily runrwjg the office 
plus from ime exposure Id d*enfs makes tins 
combination of tasks an unusuaOy 
chaltengtfig oppo rtunity SO wpm typing, maty 
shorthand 
£12-13400 


irewell! 

Esher 

A forerunner m Its field, Bits highly successful 
fmot management consultants recuires on 
mtelbqoni PA. to hem up its mergers and 
acqutsoons division. Working for ZC tf B Ca ta. 
you mil m usmg aflyour orgamsationaf skills 
m runrwig the office anduros&cg with 
research and client development As wed as 
possessing exceflent aacraanaf skfls. 
European languages are useful. SO wpra 
ot«ng. wp. 

£M-«U»0 


GOLDEN SQUARE Tel: 01 287 7788 

ANGELA MORTIMER. 

i* Secretarial Recruitment Consultancy AX 

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SECRETARY 

£13.500 

Swiss Cottage As moh 
spensatte assaS tt to tha 
cnarnimg pxppmg oxecutne. 
vfu win oecsme mvotvea m an 
asoesra o» ttxa tass mowing 
rrmawnai ccrcpary Luse 
nth overseas agents. prepare 
cocumenaaon and pnwde 

your boss retfi tufl secretarial 
C3C*-up 

1 CoH Glynts Ranger 


HM forSecretaries 

HI w&tnm*SM9sim&7m 
SUPER SECRETARY! PERSONAL ASSISTANT 
£14,000 £15,000 


Great career cuDortunty ensS 
mtmsi asseong two compfMa 
genoemen 1 Thay nava 
ecomwety and tn mer 
ebsenoa you wd be a xp eetad 
to make dee sa tts on tfwr 
tehall and take ha comrd ot 
office Conwanai. 
ttexMity as well bb typing sluts 
are assents) 

Call Gillian Bowen 


Located h pkah Maytafr 
offices, you w* oouh eaxat 
tnese 2 cr a mni n g o recars 
wKnm obs exousve. t*$My 
pret e saonai. e»ecut»w 
recrttttnant company. Lane at 
beam levs) and become KtCy 

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wel as promdaig M secraoreri 
support 

CaRGfynfe Ranger 


The Specialist Recruitment CQnsvftancY for Secretaries! 

Our Fax No for CVS is 01/4092555 

70-71 New Bond Street, W1 (Oxford St, end) 01-4810383 


JUNIOR SECRETARY 

reewred to oust m the roeepion.-oarrermnotion 
deroTmem of o End Computer Trtwvng 

Company OPPOrrunitv to improve computing aUh 
*»h«i norkmg tot fnemfly busy protessnonol compeny 
5*Jh required rcJuoe typing SOwpm. oudn, teie p none 
switchbocrd (reket orlyi, generot Mtogieu to hem oul 
-here onoremee o rsouxed We need somebody 
capobie of deakng mth numbefv of ocoote to help us 
ovate a comfortable enveonmetw lor course delegate* 
and tramere. Hesse te leph on e Sue Ceen an 01437 
1234 for f u rther defoil i. 


CHISWICK 

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01-994 9656 
(NoataaciH). 


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SECRETARY*** 


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Savoir-Flair 

to £20,000 

Our client, a private banking concern with wide-spread 
international interests, is beaded up by two high-profile City 
figures. Due to re-structuring, they now require an 
. experienced PA to provide efficient and enthusiastic back-up. 

Privy to confidential aspects of the group’s operations, 
discretion is absolutely paramount. Faultless presentation is 
also crucial, plus the confidence to liaise daily wit h pre stigious 
Gty names. Excellent secretarial skills (100/audio/wP) and at 
least three years' experience in a financial environment are 
required. 

Please telephone Sabina Stewart on 01 588 3535. 

Crone Corkill 

REagJTMENTrowsuuDwn aammmmamammmm i 

Sauna, Solarium and 
Subsidised Restaurant ... 

Tfesf are a few of Ae exceptional benefits on offer when you join our 
client, a young, stylish and highly-acclaimed Communications company 
in NW6. They cunrotty seek two individuals for key front-line positions; 
tom up with their busiest account-handling team as Secretary to a 
Director and you will enjoy a rich dimsHu of responsibilities with plenty 
of cliVnf contact {Skills 70/50J. As Receptionist you will bring organ¬ 
isational flair and a sense of ordered calm to this high-profile role where a 
poised, well-presented manner is essential Aye 
22-29? Salary cci 2-13.000. Minutes walk rjf fjfjp; 
from tube. Lovely company heaps of involvement. JIt» a 
G ill 01-409 1232. \W( 


Ram trecnf Consultants 

.. . to the Communications lndastn) 


College Leaver 

£10,500 + excellent benefits 

Superb opportunity for a bright, cnthuMastic College Leaver to 
work ai senior level in this presiigious private associ Jtinn in SVH. 
Assisting the Chairman's PA your initiative, enthusiasm anil 
ambition are the key qualities required to sustain this bus>; fast- 
paced role. Tremendous admin content as ynu organise menus; 
RS\T's for banquets and formal dinners: invoices; cataloguing 
works of an crc. Extensive comaa mill MP's. directors and 
members so con [idem, discretionary manner essential Fantastic 
surroundings. Sound skills (90 50) requested. For funher 
informatiun call 01-493 5~SZ 

GORDON-YATES 

■ ■ i. KecndcacmComokars J,J 


STEPPING STONE 
TO SUCCESS 

Loolunj for ihoi eenurnf 
“pponumij 10 get >our fboi 
da the ladder in the am and 
raetta worlds? Wc a 
nwrher of cmims ooffnngs 
Ut NiptL sefftoioiivatcd 
sec . -re m es who want 
ievotvnneBL nunm and 
independence from the 
moment ihcv take the flm 
aUimponafit areer yep. 
*Rii TV. PR. Pahiishirgare 

jus* ume of the areas wc 
speculhe in. 

TEL: 01 - 437 2277 

JUDY FISHER 

m ASSUOAUS m 

W RnntCTTt—t«.«rn 


TELEVISION 
c^I 3,000 

The very busy 
OmmtsaiMung Executive or 
Features with ihn leadiag 
md ependcM tcievnion 
txmneny « looking for a 
m$n. highly skiDed and 
crunnntvtJ Pk/wcmary 
(100/501. You will hr liaising 
«vilh P ro d ikk re. Programme 
makers. -Unis. Tecbmcuns. 

_ fie nd an yoor Laci. 
efriaeacy and miuanvr will 
be indispensable in dealing: 
wilb the many aspens of an 
esenwliy 

comsnmistions-oneataicd 

ml^ 

TEL: 01 - 437 2277 

JUDYFISHER 

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PR 

cj: 14.000 

Are you keen 10 move to 
jNslures new where (here is 
potential to prosiest? This j 
highly uicmnhrexpanding j 
PR Co arc looking lor a 
bnght self suiter with 2-3 1 
yean experience. A»(ben0ti 
■ra to the Chief Executive 
you wiD he expected to use 
your own miuanvr, advnuw 
o«i fond ranine, haismg with 
pres and puMic ai all irels 
and droll dr wuh topical 
environmental issues. su+ 
typing. 

TEL: 01 - 437 2277 

JUDYFISHER 

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5 SENIOR LEGAL SEC | 

jj c£17,000 * 

x a small City practice neats a t»glity expwiwoBd Commendat l^w shorthand %r 
V s®creoiv w assist one of trie Parmorswirntfi th« Partnership Administrettxi. C 
S Heavy admin content - 3 very Crfferem legal job! Excellent benefits. 5 


Ring NANCI GRIFFITHS 
on 628 0187 


Wordsmftha 
(Rec Cons) 


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AMERICAN EXPRESS 
TRAVEL 

A secretarial move 
in the right direction 

We haw challenging opportunities for lively outgoing and highly efficient 
secretaries at various levels throughout Central London. At whatever leva 
you join us you will have every opportunity to develop your skills, and 
should share our commitment to providing the highest standards ot 
Customer Service; 

We are looking for 

• Talent and commitment 

• Excellent typing and WP skills (preferably with shorthand) 

• Initiative 

• Confidence to deal with people at ail levels 

In return we can offer: 

• An attractive salary 

• Travel discounts 

• Free life assurance 

• Non-contributory ftnsion (for those aged 30+) 

So if you are a college leaver; looking for your second job, or have already 
gained considerable secretarial experience, we can offer you the chance to 
play a vital role within a unique and exciting environment 
Make the move to American Express Travel and send your c.v, indicating 
your anhkpated starting salary, to Julia Wolage, American Express Europe 
Limited, Rutland House; Stag Place; London SW1E 5BZ. 



BELGRAVIA SEC 
c£ 14,000 

tn fee coafmt of nr own Bdirevfa office joirtl be 
cronmualexin* laukrty wiih people in Prance. Biadiag 
quens AMpmuf eoafrkmtjr. A lee «Ml poor to 
iantocm; wfl praw » be die perina rate hr ihh wcO 

fw imnrr n. uimW^w . 

CALL TRACEY KALLUSKY 
014801844 


FLEET ST LEGAL 
mC 15,000 

Cef tbemaH fmm lil.wack widi ■ paweifiil lingxlua 


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CITY PA 
c4l8.00p+ 


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■Mttnxd Ubnd xc. You'll Inc mh obomu dKmi & 
more or tore nm a dq*. Loog cnXitiM in tbc bnbini 
MdriO, ibi* Bon to Hot dare-PKfcncd BK to ito n 30- 
Cdt SARAH CLEVEKLEY 
01421*943 


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ADVERTISING 
CHAIRMAN^S SEC 
£16,000 

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level apaiotoc. Thto Nwl adagenn a wdl-ciablatial 8 
toy yi wr tKmeTCtpbD m llf;«nr. LAt-mt c . ywiT I be 

Sbtoi.rei^ictVH*Sfmo ro - 

on KAREN TANSET 
01-434 9S4S 


Dffioe 


Unisys is a multi-national information Technology 
organisation with customers in over 100 countries. 

The Vice President of our Complex Systems 
Operation - an independent subsidiary advising and 
implementing specialised one-off solutions is now 
looking for a highly capable Personal Assistant 

This is a high profile post calling for at least 
2 years' senior-level experience and above-average 
ability. 

Probably in your late 20's to mid 30's, you will 
need a minimum of 80wpm shorthand for minute- 
taking, and 60wpm typing. You must be willing to work 
flexible and often long hours. We are also looking 
for commercial awareness and intuition, excellent 
organisational skills, and a refreshing degree of sheer 
intellect 

Please send your CV and a covering letter to: 
Elizabeth Lawman, Unisys EuropeAfrica Division, 
Bakers Court Bakers Road, Middlesex UB8 1RG. 
Tel: 0895 37137 ext 2306. 



RA-TO 
DIVISIONAL 
VICE PRESIDENT 

Power to match your 
responsibilities 

Uxbridge 

Excellent salary 


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SENIOR PA (CITY) 
£17,000 + big bonus 

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tn# CKy. Adstft wflh largn poflfOfloi. lennrs. mnutos. worts. 
Mtotos. 80% admre. A discriMt. fatty Bony parson wWf Una 
this post wry rawanbng. Hugo (User, bonus. 

Phone 434 0030 ngfit away. 


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ENVIABLE OPPORTUNITY 

£17,000 

Exciting pfoipcruui. well known company in 
Remington High Slim, is looking Tor a charming and 
capable PA. This is a one lo one role for someone in 
(heir catty to mid twenty’s. You will look after your 
VIP Boss, ©rsamsing wool events-, wining and dunn^ 
visits to The Opera and keep tabs on his zany, creative 
team who need someone like you to keep them on the 
straight and narrow! Shorthand would be ideal, but 
hell manage without it if >ou'rr the right person. Call 
Sue for mom information. 

01-497 8003 _ 

mrrsusAN doughty := 

RECRUITMENT 
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16Z3 

CREAM OF THE CROP 

£ 20,000 

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ttaeant sk.iis anti are at Homo mtn computers 
tn*- coufl ne nw cfiarc? ytuw dreamed oL 

Comm-.Kiicalions pmO industry . check ti QA cm 434 0030 . 

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PA TO MD 
C £18,000 

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AS.TS'.JSI 

Plea** telephone Oi 499 6566. 

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«MC«» t,a creme de la creme 


01-481 4481 


-EUROMONEY- 

is looking Jbr a 

OFFICE 

manager 

EUROMONEY the world's leading financial 
information company, needs a graduate office 
manager, with ai least two year’s 
office/adminisiraiive experience, to manage 
three buildings (30,000 square feet) and their 
contents and equipment. 

This is an excellent career opportunity for 
someone who is good ax handling staff and 
suppliers, is computer literate, and who is not 
afraid to get their hands dirty! 

Salary £32,000. 

Wease ring: 236 3288 and ask for Diane 
Chaplin Director of Administration Be 
Personnel, Enromoney Publications, Nestor 
House, Playhouse Yard, London EC4V 5EX. 


PARLEZ-V0US 
GREN0UILLE? 
£18,000 + MS + BONUS 

Chairman of thriving, dynamic US 
financial empire in SW1 needs a 
polished, poised social PA with an 
excellent command of French. Although 
he is charming, he is also a fast¬ 
thinking, fact-acting person who needs 
enthusiasm. dedication, precision 
organisation and a positive approach 
from his PA. What he doesn't need is a 
prima donna! Age 25-35. 100/65 + WP 





RECRUITMENT 



PA TO CHAIRMAN 
£19,500 

Tbs number one dty fan Is looking tor a new PA tor tMr 
Chairman. You wW be mvotveg in aa aspects ot ha schedule. 
Ht»m juggtng Ns many meetings to arranging business 
lunettes ana cockteH panes. 90/60 wpm ana tie abUty to 
oeal wttn top level people a must 
Age 26-35. 

WINE COMPANY - MAYFAIR. 
£15,000 

Our cEant, at international wine Im por t er la looking for a 
Secretary/PA tor thw European manager. Aa wel as the 
usual secre t arial ba ck-up you wfl ba helping him campflo all 
promotional material and marketing plans. GOwpm typing. 
S/H and Franco are an advantage, some travel required. 

Pfease caff us for an interview unti 6.00pm. 

LONDON BRUSSELS 


RECRUITMENT 

We have a vacancy for a Recruitment 
Consultant, London based experience 
preferred but someone with intelligence, 
drive and initiative will be considered. Age 
open but mature attitude necessary. 
Salary £10,500 to £15,000 a.a.e 

Contact Nicola Topp 
on 01 794 2342 
for further details 

Miller/M c Nish 


SECRETARY TO THE 
SENIOR PARTNER 

PnatigHxa Ena of Chartered A uman u rn tt in Sr. James's require 
mature (3&f) Senior Shorthand Typist (mm speeds 100/80) (or 
their busy Senior Partner. 

PwrWVrH «l^y ,h> rij.*., f.wr ttlk -Wn.mlinf 00% 

«lm »ili»nH Typing pMjrian . Ability CO work p m ait 

Pkare tend c.K ue 


Slater, r*»p«"a" & Cooke, 16A, Sl James’s Street, 
London, SW1A1ER 

NO AGENCIES 


BI-UNGUAL SECRETARY 

FRENCH/ENGUSH 
£14,000 + BONUS 

English mother tongue and fluent written and 
spoken French required. You should have 
previous secretarial experience and enjoy a 
varied day. Working tor 2 Senior Managers. 
For an immediate interview: 

CALL NEEVE 

Next Employment 408 1763 


W1 ART DEALERS 


require assistant to run administrative side of 
growing Bond Street business in 19th/20th 
century paintings. Duties to include word 
processing, maintaining gallery £ some book¬ 
keeping, but also meeting clients and general 
promotion. Ideal applicant will be creative, 
personable & practical with an interest in art 
Good career prospects and working 
environment Apply with CV to Box E31. 


Maine -Tucker 

Recruitment Consultants 


MULTI-LINGUAL OPPORTUNTIES 



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Maine -Tucker 

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£9000 + free videos + Pkg + 9.30 start! 

Win this Storing Career Opportunity to enter the world of Was 
as aMariiating Assistant working far tha people met can make or 
break a film. Whose original marketing Urn are world famous, 
and haw gjvan them a very high profHe In the ffcn Industry and as 
pubic. Thera is no NmR to how titan you can rise or to how much 
you can do, theb- motto Is "the more you can do the more they 
mil give you". Everyone works as a united team, fil fiercely 
working id make their Company the best- and BH Na.1l So 
waste no more tone reading this ad U you can type at 40 atari by 
talking to us. 


50 Pall Mali Sl James'* London SWIY SLB Tdcpboae 9I-S2S 0588 


Maine -Tucker 


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50 FkB Mri) LcreScn SWIY SLB. Tdfpboaa ««2S 0548 


SECRETARY / PA 

Experienced all round Secretary/ PA sought 
for small Property Consultancy in West End. 

We need an intelfigent, enthusiastic 
secretary with excellent WP (WordPerfect 5) 
and general secretarial skiHs. 

If you are a self starter and seeking a friendly, 
lively envoimment then this is an excellent 
opportunity to develop your career. 

Salary circa £12.500 +. 

Phone Mark Prisk on 01-487 5791. 

No Agencies. 





Multi-Ungual Opportunities 

Personnel Secretary SW1 
(Conversational German) 

£14,000+ Free Travd/Heaith Club 

Ea/ey ■ retard *od very friwdfy environment la tba toll, company 
Use your erpatntionil and axomuoicatiooB] ikffls when assisting 
■be Manager mth confidential ratters. A dance to tit IBM earns. 

Travel Consultants - SecyAdmin. 

(Either German, Italian or Spanish) 

£13,500 + Perks. 

H yaa are oniHBWd.enjoy a doUenge and dealing with people. Oris 
Is for jroQ. WP sfcfc a mat and u interest ia sktog a benefit. 

PA Secretary W1 

(French and/or German and/or other) 

£1W»0+ Neg. 

Join this UL prefects emptoy and use ywr language skifis Kim 
Basing with c aecntlv es aad Bwanaent ogdafe town all over the 
Mild. A varied 50/50 tote. (Heady enlmnrel with Ms of 

wpmMinS/bmlWfi —l 

City Banking 

(Italian, Spanish, French and German) 
£18,000, MorL Sob.+Ex c. Bens. 

Aa estafabshed tnvestn«nl Co. have a variety of secretarial Opps. 
(euakate typing, late of oc-fae research far dicat pres c ntttfa ai ). 
Some require s/h. others only WP;ALL require bnguge OoeiKy. 

For these and other Language Opportunities 
Rease call Deane Hribal at 
72 New Bond SL, Wl. 01-629 403L 


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SECRETARIAL OPEN DAY 

Job us the 8th of February at the 
STRAND PALACE HOTEL, The Strand, 

London WC2(RalelghSultB)betiMeen Noon 
and T.30 pm. for an informal Chat and a UAI IA 
drink. We are looking ter atf office staff 
(temporary and permanent! bckxffng:- 
Legat Secretaries, PA Secretaries, Office 
Managers, S/H and Audio Secretaries. 
Receptionists and Clerical Staff. 

Contact MS DEANE STOf&-3882284 01-388 


SUPER SECRETARIES 


MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER? 

Mtodd ytw M^oy a arenmv (or t*mh in a baareilul. impotod pvt 
at Majorca or Corfu -or enchanting Paxos? An opportunity B=»» 
mfofci our «na estabtthecL email apectaBst Vila Company- m Wb 
. iHpoaUi postton yea mdd leak Wtordur dJwrea and 
BocwtknamdotMncfciBcaonrewtKi Imre rented our prtwtovBM. 
If you ore aged 2S+. can drive and am M arehurfaatte and 
ogariaad paraon. wfih the abtty u copa with «m (pcraNonaq 

crtala. do twnk about applying tor Ha taaponabia poattian. A 
partner aaBtstkigon tba mNntananca/handynwi atda constdared. 
Good cBOM M a i wMi Oman or Sprtah an advamaga -wtuar 
wmk hi our London Ofloa poaaUa tor aartoua appdrents- ■ 
Contact Barbara WhyW 
CV TVanml PM-S81 0861) 

43 CMogaui St 
London SW2 2PR 



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CE16JOOO. 

Bell Yard 
Recruitment 
628 4200 


HYDE PARK 


Hi ; ;N;i 


Start £10,500 
Smal medtoal charity 
requires Secretary ate. tor 
Kb Director. Experienca 
with WordPerfect helpfuL 

2359585. 


PRIVATE SECRETARY 

To hantfia pvsonel Mtora, 
housetioU mattars, theatre, 
travel ate. lor American. 
SW1. Must be SS-40, non* 
smoker, drfrer. biteffigent; 
well Bpokan and haw 
previous experience as 
privato sec. Salary eEl WOO. 
Reply wfQl CN to Bax NoCSS 


iraeeinir mi i ■inrrm-rviii 

□trcctor of Btunmaaonai am- 
way rcqnlMS matuiw PA/ AO- 
raumtrrtor. if you have a good 
tiwwar man ner, n oka am- 
nxn amt accuram typms you 


NON-SECRETARIAL 


NEGOTIATOR 

needed for busy residential lettings department 
You'D be working for an estabished firm of Estate 
Agents in Battersea. Good typing sfcflb essential. 
Age20+. Bask; + comm. + car. 

Contact Lois at John Hoffingworth on 01-3501300. 
No Agencies. 


INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY AND 
VENTURE CAPITAL 

Are yon Burnt in Entfhfa and <p«i* wkh aamc French? 
Are you Unre and numerare? On job taqpcalm^dimftil 

weVe looking tat you! 

Manaftog Dkecnr aeeb (a-lmgtta! poniat aecreary vitb 
pcefleat ihraih iad id typln g/ word preceding to ogpume 
ha null, bay office in SW3. 

£16,000 

Rm tire BoeaUed on (II) 22S-U66 


th^Reiciui tn re re Consoltanato,^ 

ANALYST/SECRETARY for Bmuels Help compte and 
analyse market data and statistics for goverrunsnt- 
s poreo tad organisation. Some secretarial back-up too. 

Any EC languages, espaoafly Ranch. To c£i 8.000 
equhratont 

ANALYST/SECRETAflY tor London: with relevant exper 
ence, to hands prefect worn involving financial analysis, 
banking presentations plus secretarial support to France 
Director of mayor service co. Ruem Onraan. rtROOO 
TRILINGUAL SECRETARY EngUsh/GflfmBnfSpnntati: 
team span, energy. ftexiUity. beautiful German A English, 
reasonable Spanish - with these, ptis English shortnand 
and sobd secretarial expenence. you wfll find just the job 
in the Corporate Finance Department ol international 
stockbrokers- To £16,000 + bonus. 

TOP PA to President of expanding Inter-national 
company. Use your knowledge ol French together with 
your excellent seasonal/administrative skins (Eng^h ) 
and semor-level expenance, to organise management 
meetings/conferenceai and deal wnn a multitude ol 
corporate and private matters. £18,000. 

018363794 

22 Charing Cross Road, London WG2H 0HR 


SECRETARY/ADMINISTRATIVE 
ASSISTANT 

BMngud Secretary, French/ Engfch wtth Engfeh 
mathenongue and knowledge of accounts and WP. 
Experience in school secretariat preferable. Age 30-50. 
Scdcxy negotiable. 

Send CV to Affiance Franpaise 
1 Dorset Square, London NW1 6PU. 


BUNBIUAL French Sees reed tor 
a varuxy nr mm> w LantoL 
CiMUMxn tuBne oe Re - 
cruXnMOt Services 387 7038 


ine etc. cia-iaooo. ungurg, 
Rcauemnn SanrWM 3S7 7623 


amentum Oman See/ AO- 
nuumiM or mrfiawDw. ortmt 
Stock Brolmre- Varied and re- 
■ ww is e Cr neat weh Into or to- 
vatvwnent EiOjOOa Langaaga 
ItocnubniMSwIcaa 307 7803 




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Bon- Thto top American Secret- 
Hen houm. doretaaone the 
tnuranoonoi scene nr mpwii 
and aeautotoom saaksaaeator 
a w tocy tn H»a roalMao area nt 
Cerperan Fh—ca. vow gam- 
cy in Oman and pnadbiy ooa 
sour RBtown lann—e to vt- 
■al to reabia you to attend dteni 
m is ltn Bi. become mvotved In 
ntenitolnaaimrerch. micrare- 
laana and iransruon work, hi 
a ik in i um you should ham ex¬ 
cellent secretarial shuts 
000/6OX. a nexHiia DerWXWKty 
end a nu attitude In order Id 
btowWo ton support to the two 
dynamic e nre emra who hnaO up 
■hr dlvialoa. Aoe - open- Salary 
cCie.txxD wm axretlail tnu i i 
aa. nrreaiitocaiMaxcto 
dbaw funher with Mi riUm 
Nadi CHy Sere Otoe Cons! on 
873 8887. 


* * RecrnRneat 
a * Consultant 

**«* Join oir busy team 
onourFranetiDaM. 
Mniyr'eaxp SsHmcmnan. 
sranusasm ana ■ commxmem to 
novtangan BxosMnt Minca to 
chents s xprwcnntt •» Esc 
package * car adwow. 

1M Laageaga ApptMaeae 
408215a 


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yon reeah spemre or Graah ere 
NmySccruuiH Appto. U 
Crwoa da u Creme today. 


INTERESTED 
IN HORSES? 

Sbortband Secretary, 21-25 
with ax leost 2 years experience, 
with fhieoi French, urgently 
lequi tcd to jam team in 
London office of Interaalwnel 
Racing/ Breeding operatKML 

Please tad 01-425 8400 at 308 
between 09.00 - 15JW hours. 



Junior Secnetoty Cl 1,1300 
pkn taw. bentrfin to wotk tor 
this famous firm of 
Auctioneers. You musi have 
good Shorthand and Typing 
and be able to deol with 

peopta Of ofl levels, you w* 
noad to be socially aware as 
you wiD be 

speaking/meetmg people 
wel known in high sooety. 
Load* ot prospects. Cdl 
Vprica BodM on 01-494 

4020. WorfdtetrRefc 


Join our select 
secretariat team 
and work regularly 
throughout the New 
Ykac We can offer 
anexcenentrate 
package. 

H you fit our profile, 
please contact 
Liz Barra tt at 
MacBlain Nash 
Recruitment 
Consultants. 

• Are you available 
immediately or in the 

very near future? 

• Are you between 
22-28 years of age? 

• Do you have two 
years’secretarial 

experience? 

• Do you have 100 

wpms/h? 

• Are you reliable 


• Are you well 
presented? 

• Have you recent 
sound experience of 
two of the fbtowfng 
word processors? 
IBM PC MuttiMate, 
WordPerfect, 
Samna or DW4 
Wang, Digital 
DecMate, NB1 or 
Manuscript 

Please cal us now 
on (H-8728885. 


MacBlain 

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WP knowledge preferred. Em- 
phasis on growntap. muresKd 


PAST TIME 
VACANCIES 


PART TIME, AH0L 

SecKtsry/Rearptiomst 

for French London 
renauomt-Good 
prennattoa& 
well spoken. 

Please call for aa interrfcw, 
L'Ariegnln, t tlep bona 
01-422 0555. 


PART-TIME 




napired for ontiqua shop, 
Kriighisfaadg*> frismly 
atmosphare. typing and some 
won) processing sk2t 
essentkd. 

Tba Mop House 
54 Beaadnqp Plata, SW3. 


RECEPTION SELECTION 


Kin(, &Toiu:n ▼ 


Telephonist 

cll.000 + generous 
clothes allowance. 

CSty Insurance Co. rwjulrB a telephonist to worit In a 
team oo a rota baste and help provide the busy But vital 
communication saivica essafflW as a point of contact 
You should have a poDto + helpful telephone manner 
and ba able to reman calm when the te mpe ratu res 
rise) Lovely offices. Experience protone& Age 25+. 
Flame can Joanna Pope 
Kng + Totten Recruitment 
01-829 9MB 


Kim;a- iom\ 



Tboan Gflnw Hns Art. 44 
Old Boats Stmt. Lortsa Wl 



liirnwMi 


lor fiiely. friendly Design 
Consultancy in Camden 7mm. 
Must be weft spoken, cheerful 
and able to deal writh five 
tWngs at ones! Age 18-21. 
Exceflem safety accontt ip to 
ago and axpsnence. 
RtogDtanEanil 482 2815 . 


MEDIA CREME 


ADMIN/MARKETING 

ASSISTANT 

Exciting, kkngion based 
pubtolwig company, urgently 
seeks a w«a orgarased person 
capable of a range of admn 
ond market i ng dunes. 
Experience in both aspects, j 
WP and computers would be 
beneftaoL 

Contact Rachel Meeres 
on 359 8792. 


|~PR/MARKETIHG AGENCY ] 



Require a 


based in Brentford 

TWa posWonw« provide socratarial support for one 
of our Account Kractora and his team. 

Caixfidates stoufd possess excellent typing sWffs, 
induing wort processing, preferably Mutomata, but 
whling to croas train the right person. 

Benefits include a package of apprax£11.000plus 22 

days hoSday and ppp. 

Vary smsrt offices located on tin Great West Road 

Please send fu8 CV to Mrs Thelma McNeil, 
PewiComm unica tionaUL Great West House, 
Great West Road. Bretrt to rd, Mkkflasex, TW8 
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 

LONDON PROPERTY 


New £155,000 two bedroom 
riverside apartment. 

Just £77,500. 


A. brilliant new apartment. A few steps from the 
River Thames itself, and a stone's throw from the City. Two 
spacious bedrooms. A designer kitchen. Private parking 
and porterage. Use of swimming pool and bistro. A place 
where you can enjoy the lavish £155,000 lifestyle. 

For half the purchase price, initially. 

The Fair Share Home Buying Plan allows you to defer 
50% of the price paying it back at any time within the next 
five years at the then market value. With no interest to pay 
on the balance. 

For your Fair Share of a spectacular 
new Docklands development, visit King and 
Queen Wharf, this weekend. 


Ask our Sales Representative 
forfull details about 

FAIR SHARE FOR INVESTORS 


King and Queen Wharf, Rotherhitbe Street, 
Rotherhithe, London SE16. 

Show homes and sales centre open from 10am to 6pm 
weekends, and 11am to 8pm weekdays, lei: 01-231 6134. 
Fully furnished studio apartments from £54,000. 

One bedroom apartments from £62,000. 

Two bedroom apartments from £77,500. 

Two bedroom, two bathroom apartments with river 
view from £115,000. AD properties and prices are subject rp avaiiabUiry, 
These figures represent 50% of the full purchase price. 

Service charge and ground rent extra. Up to 95% mortgages 

I gmm "T. available through Cheltenham and Gloucester Building 

VLI ATjp Society, subject to stains. 


FnirfcKwh Homes psi of AMEC — onrol Europe's lances! 
eilNWcul'Uifi- construction aaddciHopipeni enupt — are 
prond io be cootrtbtjung lo ibe fxotmg tuiurcoi Docklands. 


fgFaiidough 

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King<^\' Queen 




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ANAF.Y WHARF '5 M-NJTES 


BERWICK 

(U.K.) P.L.C. 


MORTGAGE AND 
REMORTGAGE 
FINANCE 

* Interest Only (No Pension or Endowment 
Required) from V.fl5«g (APR 13.85%) 

* Exclusive Budget Scheme la reduce 
outgoings ■ please ask for details. 

* Non-status up to 85% 

* Fixed Payments from 10.05% (APR 13.17%) 

* Variable rates from 13.5% (APR 13.5%) 

* #51# Remortgages Jtv any purpose 

* Your home is at risk if you do not keep up 
repayments on a mortgage or other loan 
secured on it. 

* Insurance mar he required. 


FOR FI LL WRITTEN DETAILS 
TELEPHONE 

01-9309631 

II Pall Mall. London SW1Y5LU 
LICENSED CREDIT BROKER 


NORTH OF THE 
THAMES 


SWG. 

AMAZING VALUE 

CMm Rd Pretty 3 dWa bod 
hm. New mod mazing 45" odn 
Competitively priced £170000 
2/3 bed muaul mefseuetta 
hMi p/p. Vast west taig roof 
■bit. New fee. Cl 09550. 
HepOMBMtd studio. Lge. 
FaMous value. £57,500. 
SOUnE RADCUFFE 
381 3GS3 


MS^NNHWl AlkrtnmlHS. l 
bedroom. Cumpuntes only. 94 


4g7 3649 prtvato ■ 


bed nuL Superb pauttoo. LBnir 
bntoony. 116 yr LH £117.600 
i nrt u tfn e contents. Tel: 01-360 
6091 day. OI-363 6286 eves. 


luxury m 


UnwATOL 2 bed 
9dn so. near wmi _ 

ri.VMXW. TeL Ol 727 mtk 


3 bed Oindm 
iwiat. 36(1 recep. Mruuri door, 
open Ore. S. lacing odn. vgiML 
Morouts Road. NWi. id oi- 
»T 2373. £2484100 or oner 


-kVM /-—- 

Maisonette on 2nd/3m 
floor • 3 bednns. 3 baoirma 
emuUe. 40 R recep/dbung rm. 
dMlum. 2 terraces. nreptaoe. 
£393.000 No Aoenta. Can On¬ 
to Ol 3S2 0047 


WCt. For free 
Bn a# ntauenous Hoaaabury 
and Hotborn properties from 
£59.960. Call Fran* Hams 6 
Co. 01-387 0077 


RKYANSTON SO W! PH apt In 
prist Mock. 3 men. S belts, 
newly mod 86vr». £329.000 
CommUw 4H6 6361. 


c wnwa uwowmivif Terr. 

Hr. 2/3 beds Fitted carpers. 
«di. ad w a lled pdn. tun fea¬ 
ture* CITOk. 01-747-1182 


ORSWICK, 1H Large midi fee¬ 
ing in floor mansion oat in 
popular Sutton Court In need 
s 


W Lorn Om. £110.000. 
Please contort AW. weekend 
689 7028. weekday 681 8701 l 


FOREST OATt. £7 6 Bed. 2 reea. 
inner. 2 bam*, ml £i3s.ooo. 
01-472 8334. 


FULHAM, SWG. Terrific value 
funy mod 3 bed laf lb- flat in 
period Use Exc rnd ml cnee 
lube. Lae 117 pro. £116.000 
Anowa Stanley 362 0080/0079 


Camay 

.... > a Mr 

parts. In traomfll sertl np nead *o 
park A river Fran £2994X30. 
SllBIsn TMBUS 731 3333 


fW tn PonbrMge 
Ssiiwe. VB. 2 MR. NR*, 
•dtcfnm. bafbrm. ctookrm. own 
garden. £180000673 7428 CT3 


MAOUflCr/ISUNGTON Banters. 
Uniaue Victorian cottage 2/3 
eras 2 receptions KBrtten. 
Cooservaiary/ dbdnp 100R 
souehfacma gar d e n. £1384300 
Tel. Ol 249 6263 


double bedroom spur level Co- 
wanttan Mateonette. Bathroom 
Fitted kitchen. CCH. Spacious 
bvaifl roam/ainer. 85ft anm 
■M patio. Qukri rralrirnttM 
roue. Convenient for time, 
shoos, wnoas. pork. No chain, 
nuoa Tel oieu 7iai. 


VENICE W9 

BeamifiiUy appointed interior 
designed sdn apt wiili 2 dM beds, 
2 bubs, brand ne» Canadian 0*k 
lot witt all appliances, laundry 
nn. hi toun*e, with dir ca a ccess 
onto private gdn. 120 year lease. 

Uipeai tdc icijiiiied reduced 
from £330500 to £280000. 

Call Tony 01-266 3760 


CHISWICK PARK 

Attractive freehold house 
Praendj dhided: upper 
naromenc sod mini floor fid; 3 
bed, 2 neqpaon, nd 1 bed, 2 

irrrp i MMi 2 h n hr o omi sod thuwr. 
CM. GankQ. 0/5 psdcsng. Ideal 
banc* grmnn, at i muuu an. 4 
■nw pR*. n*e md Sabnbarjs. 
£249/088. 

81994 2580 Home 
01 379 72M £279(0) 


WH «W PARK nearby. Pretty, 
sunny, south facing 1 bed flaL 
ExrePent security. £77.600. 96 
|»». Tel: Day 01-930 
0090 Pin 01-603 8131. 


HTDC PARK. W2. OmOat pant- 
houae apt Ua stumunp p/b Mock 
w«U« dO Osq n p rivate roof ter¬ 
race. 2 bedt uis. recoil rm. dtat- 
log rm. an. bathrro. roof lerr. 
90e. 97 yr tease £206.000. 
Vorfc fame 734 0336 


SHJHOTOWCBnonSoNl. Pretty 
3 bed VKSortan mateonette. 
£150.000. DetaSs 01436 0911 


WLMOTOR. C a nonbury. tn Qtdel 

cut dr sac. Spacloaa sunny 2 


£116.000 Tel 01 369 4379 


I. fully re¬ 
stored 4 storey brolly bouse In 
prarrfol location near Camden 
Passage and Upper Street 
Many oertod features. 

nupninraiM sttnnp room. 4 dou- 
b*e bedroom s - hand craned an 
tMue MM 


_ lo wefl 
stocked garden. £3364X30 or 
nearest offer for aulek sate. Td 
01-369 4687. 


JUST By Nnr Green. Lame 4 

- - 3 


r Ol - 


imu VMCK. Ounmlng 2 bed 
flat, roof inner A Ige. comm. 
CURS. £140.0(30 ono Td. Ol- 
gdo gyeoiei or 01-724 itasip 


MARSA VAU W9. Spacious 2nd 
fir manan ffl. 2 snk. pood rond. 
pood price. 87 in. £109.300. 
Cornerstone 486 6661 _ 


MARVLEBONC. Wl. Huge tMty 

mataoneae tn preaag t of man¬ 

sion Mock fun complet in g for 
refUrMaltmenL 4 beds. 2 bams. 

recep. dlrune rm. tat/b-ut rm. 

106 year lease C346JBOO York 

Estates 734 0336 


IHnCWCXJL SRUL. Spsdous 5 bed 
fianlly bouse Wed maintained, 
son garden, polio. £330000. 
Td OI4U 0670. 


I (Middx), car q Dad 

dal in mod pb Mock, recap, tft 
W. bam. Leafy ou Ooo * on com- 
RiiMMI guns, ggt- 993 year 
lease, nil rem. sendee etiaroe 
£480 pa No chain. £1204300. 
Td (09374.1 34234. 


HW11. Sunero (amity bouse 4 
large beds. 2 receptions Mag- 
nmcenl known Morning room 
Luxury battir oeiB. on meet 
narking 300 n re 

£2704300 Nn n mi._ 

Mused. Tel: 01-488 3722. 



urn Imagination Into Reality 



SOUTH KENSINGTON LONDON S W 7 

Imagine the distinction of the location. Imagine the creation of interiors with style and 
individualhy. Imagine the convenience of garage parting. Andyou’re Imagining Roland 
Way. Freehold 3 bedroom houses from £460,000 and 4 bedroom Houses Jiom 
£S 95,000 to £625,000. Located off Roland Gardens, off the Old Broaipton Road. 
Showhouse open Afon-Fri l2-7pm and Sat-Sun 12-5pm (Tel: 01-370 0532). 
Illustrated brochure available. 


Lovell Homes 

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H 0 

ROLAND WAY 


Battour Beatty Homes 

A UCC Conp*7 


Laved Homes London Limited, Times House, Station Approach, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 8JA, England 
Telephone (089S) 622100. Fax (089S) 621577. 

Fmn corrm or >kar of gMng lepras anJ adsiftr efurwv dbarys lhr ph^ogn/t n dir Hiirfn ifiavbmilr. 



Hyof. Park Gate 

LONDON’S FINEST NEW ADDRESS. 

Yours for half the price. 



tasking gently behind an imposing Queen 
Anne period facade is a collection of apartments 
which must surely represent the epitome of 
gracious living. 

Hyde Park Gate offers highly specified 
residences with uniformed porterage and a 
video entryphone for security and privacy. All 
served by a marbled entrance hall. 

Yet the most astonish¬ 
ing aspect of Hyde Park 
Gate is not the views aver 
Hyde Park and Kensington 
Palace Gardens. It is the Fair 
Share Home Buying Plan. 

Fair Share allows you 
to pay only half the 
purchase price, initially, 
and pay back the remaining 
50% at any time up to 1996, 
at the then current market value. And you will 
only be required to pay a 4% [APR 4%] simple 
interest per annum on the balance. 



Which means one of London's premier addresses 
is now within easy reach. Visit Hyde Park Gate 
this weekend and ask how Fair Share could 
open the door to the prestigious lifestyle. 

One bedroom apartments from £82,500. 
Two bedroom apartments from £197,500. 
Three bedroom apartments from £425,000. 
Three bedroom penthouses from £690,000. 

These figures repre¬ 
sent 50% ofthe fullpurcfhise 
price. Service charge and 
ground rent extra. 

Show apartments open 
daily from Ham to 7pm. 

58-59 Hyde Park Gate, 

The Royal Borough of 
Kensington and Chelsea, 
London SW7. 

Telephone: 01-584 6535 or 01-584 3005. 

^ F&rdough Homes 


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mass teceo Loose 125. n55.CC-5 
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n99&M 72? C311 


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ww aatm 3 txc. S Sr lytncn 
mm. pMtg. f/m nscooa ts 

liwne vci h* ton *3 sm 

MilMLim OnnUAC: 

gon H65000 TO XC 


room flat, 
both - all 
£89.900 Td Ol 221 9114 


HW1 Eton Averin*. Udgor fbm 
mm 5 bed bousr on 3 Roara. Igr 
raevp. studio rn» win batengr 


Bagrn dbi bed ma. Lux oxm- 
roam Penod rgba CM. t mtn 
tuna. £73.980 ana Conwnrs 

IW9 Tn. Ol 482 1397_ 


RWM Ssa/M floor, trim. 

am 2 bcdreer 

Mrov roe# urrorc in oulrt strroi. 
aew 96 yr ran Just nnM 
so must WO. £96.600 Ol 328 
2036 IHJ 01609 2806 fOi 


*»f Cnraun srrracv l and 2 
bad lor sunny R«l*i titll i M. 
16 X 16 MMxra> wrong rm 
BrqM kit onto trorr rmurve 
cornier M truing rases. Mar 
me nmum bmncdisMi' 

BniattaM £I40K and C145K. 

01-028 1392 or 384 1669. 


BARGAINS IN A 
BUYERS MARKET 

' 'electron ofMudrov I bed. 2 
bed * bed Jnd -I bed flats fur saJr 
in 3 mural London Mocks 
tinnc Hall <~oun 
Si John’, WmxI. 

Rtpsc) Lodge \iwuf Road 

NlVl 

Hr* Park Muiuqrs oil 
Ed^»aTL' RkUd 
Pncn froar £bl COU 
Lung Irasei Joiai vw jiwnli 
Golden Kn Estates 

723 7619. 
DorcbeMrr E'UM 

724 I0.W. 


W T O A IOS PARK luxury 2 bed 
flat. Large reception KWI cal 
■TOP Original eomtaag Monde 
fireplace No main £175.000. 
Tel 01-487 3667 after Mm. 


•T JORMS WOOD 3 Morey terr. 
Hamiuen Gam 7 roan, k&r 
F ora toe 60 n Stir gdn. 96x18 
PW F/H £3904X30. 286 0030 


. NI6. Abed 
Victorian inner House 5 re- 
cepaom. C/H. s ept ru l e consult- 
ing ranr. original feoturrs. 
Pfeltv garden £166000 ono 
Td. 01-802 4404. 


■WI2 bed flaL 3rd fir. views nv- 
CT Porte, Lae 96 lrr* £1704300 
Tucfcennan 222 6611 


- -K NWS Newly 

Jet 2 bed. 2nd Root con ve rmon 
oat UgM A soaoous New m- 
Ud Hlctien. dounr gtaomL 2 

rauaa tube and kbops £120.000 

Private mwe 01505 1642 eves 


■WI Stimnina 
gmd/flr lomlly flaL kmugty no 
Pored, tug* cetUngs Lor 
Lntr/han. 2 recep. ku/brfcfasi 
nn. 3 dMr b d iiro . 1 sgl/ttudy 
wtui i/onm cupboards. 2 
bkttum. 11 ensrote wm 
Mceim other wttnodd/stiwr 1. 
BS yr/be Own pm/pknig 
wimin mi rt/vard Wonderful 
Doner £373.000 Tel 01828 
2996 iwjiday mgm.3 


W2. Near WhttMeya. 1/2 Bed flaL 

Pbfcmg (pace. Hu pe rti 
£106.000. TO. Ol 727 S623. 


MAIDA VALE W9. 

Stour Mgsd nnM inotorsstd 2 

iMwm'taunvamttMtitcoi'OiMi 

To tadtada ktnay tokpsa. Oflaga 
and fcanttuia OagapoM. FuSy 

npsd UKtisn. banxoom. s homsr 
room ana gvaat se 9* ysar b an . 

£239^)00 ono. 

TeL (h) 01-289 5221 
or (o) 01-628 0570 


■ Smuotra Hand 

JrJVJ btjrd)*- VMnn I bed 
not LxreUenl deraram r anjer 
Sbare of rreebala. £79.960 

Tet-OI-431 1246 


CITY & WEST END 


3 


bed sawn facing 
flal. view Monday, no ctiun 
C£904X30 Tel (05921 08906 


•RVANSTOH MH1ARK. Supero 
raised grnd fir aaonmeM wnn 
paao odn cm hall, rec nail, 
clkrm. rec nn. din rm. klt/brk 
rm. rooster bed en suite. 3 
funner dMr beds, bam 
Iroroaeidate Simply mini be 
viewedl Lar 94 yr*. Price upon 
g WjfSUon J S A Co 4QZ 7383 


RTBR park Cdns Mm. wa 

Charming house, hums. 2 firs. 3 
beds. 2 naan 2 rrena. Garaar 
F/b Soteegentx James Solway 

Mt dr Park 402 R31Q 


«"TMM MAMMONS. WI A 
asternal of modernised A 
uranooemtsed MS are avail 
yble in Dm exceflem MoCb 2/4 
bedrms tan 108 years. ReoiLsn- 
ran, priced from £186.000 
F«t fun detato or lo view today 
H? S4h»«v Residential 

01 602 7383 dole norms I 


MKITR BTRU.T. Mayfair Spa 

omit Plea a terre tn errrtienl 
etasd torsi, kjtrnen. 3 beds. 2 

mob n eiHMdiei 30 hr Mrrer. 
Lease 999 vrs £276 OOO Park 
Lane DU)n 01^29 0763 


WX. Flal US in wi From 
£70.000 - £1 C mitum Tel- 

James Solway & Co. The Mary 
ttbtne SsrrWHb o: 402 7383 


- Sman nlrcFa- 

lerre. Long lease. £97.600. No 
chain. 01-930 4603 (24 Urol. 


CHELSEA & 
KENSINGTON 


HOLLAND PARK - W14 

Sup««t>Afti Hr H« m prestige 
block Ofvng gdn 30's 25 tang 
rm. 3 beds. fuS fndluf. nnkfeip 
•led bolhrrm. c/h. new decs 6 

epts dspughout A repdenf 
poner. Gge evol Lse 113 yn. 

£245,000. 

TalMrHofl 

01-392 1726 (T) 


CMLKA Prime location, luxury 
1 bed flat m purpose nuili mnw 
Ing with Porter, re carpeted 6 
redecorated lo hlon etanaard. 
120 year lease. £149.600 tel 
01-373 0424 


CMCLACA Spacious Mgtil oano 
flal with 2 beds A 2 boUM 
Share of f/h. £1994300 
Tockermon 222 6611 


CI BOL M CA. Supetb oenlTWHise 
with op en view s of river 2 
beds. £229.000. Tuckarman 
222 6611 


Good Size 
garden 

sBgfiUv 1 

Kitchen, 
healing. 
Long 

£106.000 Plrasr 
contact AW. Weekend 389 
7026. weekday 681 6791 T. 


bathroom, central 


1C VDH CHMM- Kerataaton. 2/3 
bed balrony rial ofren (nvned 
Horae A bon 01-499 9344. 


BATON KMC SWl. Unusual A 
wuonmg 2 tee iru om nat with 
potto lo front A roar Reception. 

dbdng room. 2 bathrooms. 
Long lease £2094300 Purli 
Lane Doom. Ol 629 0769 


Quraishi S 
Constantine 


lOMKII TERRACE 91 1 bed. own I 

nee. MX Mel £1124)00 
OllEBtSOATE TERRACE SW7 2 Md 

IM n sjcoD VcmuR bouse CUS4M0 

KBIWAV VIIXAGE 8W5 WTqr bw 1NB 

■toi <m cm bur 1FM Mae to to ume 

meF r bed. £ n-c. 0P1 dm & icv 

*210.600 

NAPCR ROND W14 ITm -Kl 

029950 MM £1154)00 Of OR* Mutt} 

eronnge 11 3 aeeks. 

HORNTCH ST. m 5«8t) BmRl ntafl 

Mend atens MsgM hr5msua (My I 

2 IM swoons img mam. me wn 

arts C2C54XM 
RENSMCTON MANSIONS 8W5 Veryl 

sweats 3 oed grnm 6 fUi m kniuegl 

gw S«nv i>gh caMgs me 20 1 is f 

mad by £20000 NOW £1754)00 wr| 

WN 


HOLLAND PARK 

(n an exclusive resktanUal 
road ctose to Kensington 
High Street An 
outstanding, newly 
converted, flat with 
impressive studio/reception 
room, two bedrooms, en 
suite bathroom and 
separate shower room, 
fitted kitchen/breakfast 
room, own private 
pa tie/garden area. 
Leasehold £345,000. 

Soie agents. 

JOHN WILCOX & CO 
Tel-01 602 2352 


MORTGAGES AT ONL Y 
12.45% APR 13.7% 

plus low start option 
with no early redemption penalties 

(DlhiMif©lhiB[|[|^®g®©Biite 

PREMIER HOUSE. 112 STATION ROAD. BDGVARE. MIDDX HAI7AQ 


01952 0990 


LICENSED CREDIT BROKERS 

YOVR HOME IS AT RISK IF\Ol’ DONOT KEEP IW REPAYMENTS ON 
A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT. 


FULHAM tmmar, 3 bad. I«l fir 
flal. bom a VHwrr rrro. mod 
kll/bMarf rm. £127.000 01- 
301 3624 or Ol 371 0219 


- -- SWIO 

ItoWH I* fir rial In pmgd tor 
houahl uin location a tod*. 
MMoiai roerp. kR/bVH rm. Ls# 
i-O, Vro. £266.000. Angola 
Stanley 362 0079/0666 


CHELSEA SWIO 

UmaniAagRBsbmin 
qoeicd dene, off Kings Road. 

3 bpfaxH BL 2 reepbon L 2 
bsthnxMk CRBRiamy. roof 
ttutce. hiK/xuzzi. nnrtde 
faptaoo. 1 Mpdv atantt. 
FREEHOLD 
£395400. 

TEL; 81-376 4435. 


IWIfl. Freehold. Bmrattfuny ro- 
funasnM spaoous period 
house 4 noon FUtoMd loMgh 
namurd OfRO £lra- Horne A 
Sam 01-499 9344 


HAMPSTEAD & 
H1GHGATE 


AUEXAMMA PALACX 4 bedtoa- 
cwn lWO> wrml. halt* ton. 
rOCH. nnniiiKimi pMoulrl 

rood. 60 foot SWcM garden. 
OIHO £186.000. Td Ol 088 
6120 


-- WOOD, mimac 

prnltmnr man w«h panoramic 
nrvn 6 tods, rod pdn A bolco. 
nl« Lw 093 m £390.000 
Tuctarrman 2P2 Bail 


RTOLD RD SWIO. Spodoui lop 
floor Hutto, wim srp kHchra/ 
broaMant Luv 92 yraro. 
£764300 Td. Ol -622 7299 


dMr rorvp. dining, k A b. 9 Dnb 
ana gdn Goto com Frvdiatd. 
Hoganh Ddnhi 373 9637 


- W14 1-2 bedro o m 

around floor garden flat tn dm 
of amp moorntBatton. 
£874*00 for «Mch SBM. Td; Ol- 

740 1600 (Mn Whiter). 


PARK WALK. SWIO m Otar heart 
of CMM Heady for Immedl 
ate occupation super 2 bed fill. 
Lovely recep. md kii/diner. 
Lease 117 year, £148.000 
AnoHaSlonlrv 362 9666/0000 


RKBCUFn SQUARE ■ A dun 
rung iwo bedroom rial wim pel 
Kttr south facing lerrace 
Caleb and curtains mrmion- 
ouf Cm CM and HW FuUy 
raulpped Ulrheti Newly con¬ 
vened by CPU 90 year leaaa 
£ 2 26.000 Call Ol 009 7029. 


R UB VRAARK NW3 Huoe 2 
bed ronueilon Id floor, very 
Wight. 2do reception, goad am 
dinan 97 yean. £I09.«6O 
Gornemotie 486 6661 


RIVERSIDE HOUSE 

Mordake SW14 

Brand m devetoflBwn of 7 boras 
(2 DraM bow n) S endsUUmq 
afltmg 3/5 bRb. 2 on. «B nioi 
auscmtcigniarpows. High 
standard gl finpi. dids gte supRti 
Usd kds. etc. LkbbI on Bames 
ano Qbrh bgnm. Pncss Irani 
E290 ■ 4354)00 Flash b wnalm 
occMtaMM. oAw broctus vontgr 


01-3921635 or 
MchMtGragon 
B1-332 22T7. 


Hktty dcs location ModernMd 
■cmlOM dMe fronted vie fmfy 
toe dose common, rube and 
I emus courts. S soar neceos. Idl. 

OTUU conwrv. 6 bedrnn. e a 

bourn. Ige ion. gdn. 
C320.W0 F/H Sole ab 
Law Tonera Ol thw 


STANHOPC RD Nb Large 2 bed 
garden flal rrdureo 
Cl 124300 Coxa Ol -290 6767 T 


SOLTH OF THE 
THAMES 


RAT 11!MCA SruTMHng 4 dote 
bed. 2 dam. OW -01111)0. utmiy. 
cellar. Undacaped ton. Idl/ 
bkhu £186.000 Tef 924 3602. 


MTTIMCA Mil Charming 
recently bum 2/3 bed or 1/2 
recep and lerraCe. 2 Doth. m>. 

lure showhauw garden, garage 

A oA parking. CCH. a«r 
ironaporf A ilwpi F/H. 
£169.600. Taf Ol 228 6413 


CAMKRIKEUL DROVE. Comer- 
vaoon area Gf 2 bed i/r bngnt 
■MrTmml in hamname IHTO"* 
home o'teakmg marure rtc-ea. 
Large Awing rm inroteri 
ounerb kn. mirrored Mh. w 
den. parking. V aran and mn 
rt £1064300. Tel Ol 274 0094. 


CLAPNAM, Hamden gg. snitl' 
nlna 7 ante tod man ortg 
deilg n ed a> «rth» -audio 
Saeclannar vtewairom recep A 
30" roof Urrr. Very well 
equipped tail. CI29.6QO 
VimtOM 073 4377 


WANDS WORTH 2 bedroom* 
VKiarian upper around floor 
flat with oerarn L/H £87.700 
Tel: Ol B7a 0340. 


ClARHAM COMMON. WroUlde 
CapavaOna Vfc. Terr toe hoi 
on c ommon, refrevwngly du 

Jccwnm. 4 bidii ns 5 

hathntn. 11 e/»L umnuai gallcr 
drawing rm. 
dlnlng/fmiy. fW kh. cottar, ncet 
W » yr gdn. CTOO.OOO fJh 
L alne Toner. 01 223 29BS 


CLAPNAM SOUTH Ground floor 
nro 2 dMr beds Secluded gdn 
fltouned lo £100.000 for Quick 
. sate PLATA 7248 levegl 


A.NeSw 

A DOUlllfl. Qf HUM rnidtoa 

*On can. £11 SwOOO Hoopvr & 
—jackjCKi Ol 730 uni 


— or WALTS DRIVE 

WM Immac 3 bed/ a Ban> 
monuon nai. overlowonjpaST 

recepi/oining room wim rtre 
Ej - ** I™* I ttr yro piut shore 
Of rrreftou £230.000 vww 

Jgtoy Tel: Quag-gSa 


^2?? Hw k ^ 1> n^r* PTV *“ 00 

»K^7^ S^£, n f^ 
°»Tim iszr^a 1 Too ° 


S-^toSBT V.5S 

Tuckunan Jam;,? 1 "- 800 


Sytn pa metical lv ^rrolond”**^ 

ssarsSa 

w £jSS”P? ?! 1 b»e 

Vlrtonan Qardi n flat. £74 OOO 
tona Tn Oi sm 


BLACKHEATH SE3 

Attractive and modem 
3 bedroom terraced 
house. 25ft lounge. 
Gas central hearing, 
doutte glazing, garage, 
garden. 7 minutes BR. 
£108,000 
Tel 01-318 0785 


WANDSWORTH_ 

cM^ni bcauufouy rooaerWM 
Viclorten house tn poptdi 
road. 31* drawing room, k 
huge CUnlng/Uvtng rm. 6 be 
room*. 2 bamroams. (I «/■ 
uunar rm. s separate WCT- 8 
south facmg gdn. F/Tl E57B.OC 
Sum van Thomas 767 7711 


docklands 



SHADWELL 

Minnies from ShadwrH stanm 
a hiphK mdiv (dual Ibrct 

hcJroom fb) on ihe SRDad 

floor of a convened school 


cnimp Rcccp. fulH_ 

faidwi. roaarr bed & hub. - 
funber bnb. sbomr mom. fu 
CH. KfnrrcmcTRl pariune lor 
2 crs. LeascboM £135.000 

01 - 480 6848 


Docklands 
01-480 6848 


OOCKLAROB... __ 

««b rurawied i mm.pI 

r-L pre * bkJCk. ltd 

CH. rid UL prvt - 


F"M^W^WFPocMroxti n 

rsS%£5*£ Win £884)00 na 

_*»0430O. Tot Ol-ktti WISH 


sr~T rm. io- roe. 
19 comets oiorv bn T. Iu _ 


OuOUndbM 3 bad P. 

home. 2400 N ft U 

“***57. a marble wmw 
Jtotomomie tawnen + 2 a 
wninys 1900 sg flalvMg m 
roneeni BwiaramM wews 
*M TIWfACS. HKSV 
car space Owner go 


frf?r l r t n gl lSO "» 

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY 


By Christopher Warman 




Hammering sales home 


A wricns of residential prop- 
eny are not normally for 
ordinary people. In a 
difficult market, howeve£ 
experiments mus t be triH 
and Cnrchod & Co, a firm of chartered 
surveyor s an d auctioneers in Wey- 
dik^, Surrey, last week joined Wes 
witU the Waltoiwm-ThimwiX? 
of the Halifex Building Society ShSd 

an easy aocuon” of residential 
propones in the area specifically 
aimed at the ordinary buyer. 3 
.AD the properties for sale could be 
viewed beforehand, all bad been 
inspected by qualified local valuers, 
and legal s earches had been done, so 

that prospective purchasers knew the 

properties would be acceptable for 
loans from the building society. 

The bidding system was made as 
painless and straightforward as pos¬ 
sible, and for those people able to buy 
(unencu mbe red by chains) the process 
offered a _ certain transaction. A 
successful bidder on February 1 would 
be able to move in on March 1 
with out fe ar that the vendor might 
withdraw or that a chain might break, 

• Bridge Farm, near Ansty, —” 

West Sussex, is a fine old 
farmhouse set in nod ala ting 
wooded farmland out of sight recreal 
of other- properties. Originat- The ft 
ing m the 14th century, the . atenni 
m ain p art dates from the 15th Cluttoi 
century, with an oak timber artmea 
frame, mainly of brick under a Heath 
Horsham stone and tQe roof. offers i 
The house has been mod- • Old 
eraized with three reception Downis 
rooms, six bedrooms, and a j 

detached three-room cottage, with it! 
Outbuildings include a garage, 1710 . ’ 


Auctions are aiming to attract ordinary 
house-hunters with easy bargain buys 


ond purchasers had to put down a 
deposit of only 5 per cent, subject to a 
maxim um of £7,500, with that mm 
offered as an unsecured loan by the 
Halifax. 

The outcome of the auction suggests 
that the property market recovery is 
patchy, or that people the 

confidence to go ahead by this 
method. Ian Oswin, the auctioneer, 
succeeded in knocking down only two 
of the 24 properties on offer during the 
auction. Nearly 1,000 people had been 
informed of the occasion, and some 
200 crowded into the auction room, 
but Oswin believes that while many 
were genuinely interested in buying 
they may have been uncertain about 
the way to proceed. 

That view is supported by the fact 
that after the auction Inal ended, some 
30 people made further inquiries 
about the properties, and half a do zen 


more sales were made. Oswin admit¬ 
ted that they did not sell as many of 
the p ro perties as they had hoped, but 
insisted that the auction was a success. 
“The indications are that people still 
lack confidence in the market, but 
they are also not sure about auction 
procedures. But the majority of the 
properties had interest shown in them, 
and we will probably hold another 
auction along similar fines.** 
Prudential Property Services was 
holding its first auction of 1990 this 
week, with a 70-lot catalogue offering 
land and property worth around £5 
million. Auctioneer Anthony Proctor 
predicts that this spring will prove to 
be a good time to buy, with prices 
depressed. “Those people who in¬ 
vested in 1974 and 1975, when 
interest rates were high and prices had 
fallen, have enjoyed remarkable cap¬ 
ital appreciation. Many of those 


investors are entering the market 
again, and there seems little doubt 
that property bought now will be the 
best hedge against inflation during the 
coming years.” 

The next auction by the agents 
Allsopp & Co takes place in London 
next week, offering 163 lots prod ucing 
an income of more than £2.3 million a 
year, it will reflect an increasing trend 
of recent months, the sale of unwanted 
properties by local authorities and 
other statutory bodies. The vendors 
include several county councils, Brit¬ 
ish Telecom and the Inner London 
Education Authority; the properties 
were originally private homes, and are 
un modernized. 

Some have not been lived in for 
years, and have been converted for a 
variety of uses, including telephone 
exchanges and an abattoir; most have 
planning consent to revert to residen¬ 
tial use. 

Among the lots, the cheapest is a 
telephone exchange in Buckingham¬ 
shire which, if demolished, will pro¬ 
vide a building plot of 2^00 sq ft 
yours for around £15,000. 


recreation room and an office. 
The five-acre grounds indnde 
a tennis court and a small lake. 
Cluttons* country boose dep¬ 
artment and its Haywards 
H ea t h office are asking for 
offers around £675,000. 

• Old Rectory at Denver, near 
Downham Market; Norfolk, 
dates from the early 1600s, 
with Its front portion added in 
1710. The bouse has a pine 


IN THE MARKET 

panelled hall and retains its 
sash windows and shutters. 

Standing on one acre, it has 
eight bedrooms, and wheat the 
railway line to Liverpool 
Street is electrified later this 
year, London will be within 90 
minutes' travelling time, lie 
property's price is £300,000 
through Jackson-Stops & 
Staff’s Newmarket office. 

• Picton House is an impos¬ 


ing listed 18th-century bouse 
with a frontage on to the 
historic High Street in the 
CotswoU village of Broadway, 
Worcestershire. 

Boot of mellow Cotswohl 
stone. It is set back behind 
stone wails, and has for the 
past 40 years been occupied in 
the main as fine art galleries 
and showrooms. 

The first and second floors 


comprise a seif-contained 
residential apartment, with 
two reception rooms, study, 
two bedroom suites and five 
other bedrooms. 

Outside there is a wall¬ 
ed garden and a kitchen 
garden. 

Andrew Grant of Worcester, 
and Jackson-Stops & Staff's 
Chipping Camden office, 
describe it as an important 
retail, commercial and resid¬ 
ential property, and give a 
gnide price of £850,000. 



A rare market offering 

Wahmt Tree House at Middteyard, King’s Stanley, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, is a Grade 
11 listed Georgian boose set in seven acres. This elegant house has been modernized, bat 
retains its character with features such as shuttered windows. It has three reception rooms, 
two bedroom mites and four other bedrooms, and there is a gnest cottage, stable yard and 
oatbnfldings. The grounds include walled gardens and four paddocks. Adrian Thompson of 
Strutt & Parker's Mureton-in-Marsh office anticipates considerable interest, given the rarity 
of good Georgian properties on the market The asking price is around £600,000. 


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TAUNTON. 

£285,000. 


HAMPTON 

COURT. 

Lamina period reafcnoe. 
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0*daoUm plUcr md 

Ttana. S donUe bedroanu 
all with co miBr f»dfcrj, 


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(PwersfiefcJ Station 9 antes, 
Waterloo 75 mrru»s) 

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fanny nouse n tos Dmntond 
xtoQB setting. 

5 principal bedrooms. 2 
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floor and 1 attic room), 2 
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wjs. study, doakrooro. trusty 
room, cofer. playroom. 

Mtcften/breeMasi room. 
OeCgMful gardens o< about 1/3 
ol an acre and garage block. 

Radon £374000 
QA Town a Conroy, 


mm Military Road. Listed grate 
□ ntnor OnaderniaaU. B tod- 
roams. CH. (me. £79.000 
TW: (0797) 226607 evra. 


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5 BED 

3 bathroom houM in 
prestigious Wabb 
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1030 


COMMERCIAL PROPERTY 


'Cogapanjes which move to Scotland may be well placed to avoid recession pressures 


Northern lights 


By Christopher Warman 

Property Correspondent 


A surve y by the chartered 
surveyors Weatherall 
Grren & Smith on the 
Scottish property mar- 
“ gives an optimistic 
view for the coming year as 
Sootiand seeks to take advantage 
of ns improving economic pos¬ 
ition — bat the emphasis is on 
caution. It says that with compet¬ 
itive costs, good industrial rda- 
bons and a pool of skilled labour, 
Scotland is well prepared to 
combat any recessionary influ¬ 
ences in 1990. 

David Wright, managing direc¬ 
tor of Weatherall Green & Smith 
Scotland, believes that any poten¬ 
tial over-supply in the office, 
industrial and business * parp sec¬ 
tors would not pose a problem 

because it would allow Scotland to 
attract tag relocations and open 


O ffice space which provides 
a tax shelter is in strong 
demand in London's Dock¬ 
lands, the agent Healey & Baker 
reports. It has more than £60 mO- 
Ife* of tax-shelter space to seO in 
Do ck l and s before April, more than 
any other agent selling space in the 
Enterprise Zone, and Is January 
received Inquiries for more rt*m 
500,000 sq ft. It reports strong 
interest in tax shelter investments 
in the 135,000 sq ft of prime nffit* 
accommodation at Thames Qnay ( 
dose to Canary WharL 
Chris Noyes, of Healey & 
Baker, says there has been an 
increased number of inqairies for 


the doors to new business oppor¬ 
tunities. “However,” he adds, 
“certain current shortages, partic¬ 
ularly of offices in Edinburgh, may 
seriously hamper future success.” 

At the start of 1989, be says, 
there was great faith in the future 
and confidence in the growth of 
property values, which encour¬ 
aged developers to prepare, and in 
some cases undertake, large 
subemes. “The past few months 
have seen a reverse," Wright adds. 
“Many developers and financiers 
with interests in schemes not yet 
under construction arc hesitating, 
with the result that a number of 
developments will be deferred and 
in some cases aborted.” 

Over the past year, the survey 
reports, the Scottish office market 
was buoyant. Record rents were 
set for new prime buildings, 


the rental value of existing prop¬ 
erties increased. 

Despite this, Matthew Edgar, 
associate director, comments: “In¬ 
creasing land values and budding 
costs, coupled with high interest 
rates and softening yields, are 
making new development unvi¬ 
able outside the three core centres 
of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aber¬ 
deen.” 

Edinburgh, Scotland's financial 
centre, is suffering from a chronic 
undersupply, largely caused by 
delays in the issuing of p lanning 
consents. But ih« bodes well in 
(he short term for refurbishments 
and new buildings mming on 
stream in the next two years. 
Then there will be a premium on 
modem high-specification space. 
Rents for the best prime office 
space now stand at more t hen £22 


Dockland refuge 


Docklands properties since recent 
publicity about the cost of the new 
Uniform Business Sate. "People 
are finally beginning to realize that 
the £1.5 billion infrastmctHre 
improvements, the fat * Ca¬ 
nary Wharf is attract in g many 
huge tenants and that, with rents 
approximately one-third of City 
and West End equivalent occupa¬ 
tional costs. Docklands is an 
attractive and fast-improving 
place to locate. The tax shelter 


market is still strong, underlining 
investors' confidence fat the bag- 
term potential of Docklands.” 

With the end of the tax year 
looming, a lumber of wealthy 
individuals and companies are 
looking to shelter their 1989-90 
tax liability, and Hill Samuel, in 
coqfunctioa with Co-ordinated 
Land and Estates pic, has 
kmnehed a scheme to obtain 100 
per cert tax relief against commer¬ 
cial properties being developed by 


per sq ft. In c o ntrast, Glasgow has 
seen great development a n d , as a 
result, rental growth has been 
steady rather than dramatic. The 
top rent for prime space is about 
£17 per sq ft, although the average 
office rent is only £15 per sq ft. 
Recent demand to have 

come from the financial-services 
sector, including Royal Insurance, 
Direct Line Insurance an ^ the 
continued relocation of BP. 

In Aberdeen, after a resurgence 
in the oil industry, movement is 
occurring in the office market. 
Rents have reached £10 a sq ft, 
and in Dundee the proposed 
redevelopment of the Overgate 
Centre should push rental levels 
above £5.50 a sq ft. 

Scottish retail yields are pre¬ 
dicted to remain at present levels 
for the first six months of 1990. 


CLE in the TeHtad Enterprise Zone. 

The idea is that the company or 
individual wishing to tax shelter a 
minim am of £150^900 buys a 
bon d ing with a 100 per cent loan 
from HiB Samuel, and 40 per cent 
of the loan is repayable within six 
months, by which time the pur¬ 
chaser should have received a 
corresponding snm in tax rebate 
from the Inland Revenue. 

The partners in this scheme 
claim an advantage over rival 
Enterprise Zone schemes in that 
they are able to offer the owner¬ 
ship of a virtual freehold, rather 
than just a share in a orach larger 
company. 



■ Rutersgal has let Wetby House, 
its new 8300 sq ft development in 
Wilton Road. Victoria. London SW1, 
to British Sateffite Broadcasting. 
The tenant which expects to be In 
fufl occupation by Aprs, wff pay a 
rant offiBIlisso, and terms wore 
“axpedtently agreed between both 
panes In order that B3B may gain 
earty occupation to compete with 
Rupert Murdoch's rival Sky Tefe- 


v IN THE l 

vision", says Knight Frank & Ruttey, 
which, with Tuckarman, advised 
RutoregaL 

-■ United Artists International has 
established Its European head¬ 
quarters at Genesis Business Park 
at Shearwater, Woking, Surrey, 


with a five-year lease on 17,037 
sq ft at an annual rent of more than 
£340,000. UAI operates its cable 
TV and telecommunications fran¬ 
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Stephen Benjamin, of Matheson & 
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40 


SPORT 


THE TIMES WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1990 


A fading tennis player reveals how she somehow retains her appetite for combat 

Durie still passionate to play 


RACING 


Auckland 
Oh, you’ll like Jo Done, tennis 
people always say. She’s so 
■way nice... and then, after a 
significant pause, they add: 
“Perhaps too nice.” They 
mean, too nice to win tennis 
matches. 

In recent weeks, she has lost 
in the second round of the 
Australian Open, and in the 
quarter-finals of the New Zea¬ 
land Open here in Auckla nd . 
She used to be No. 5 in the 
world; she will be 30 this year 
and is now ranked 118. 

And she is nice all right. No 
disputing that; it was a plea¬ 
sure to sit and talk tennis with 
her. But I am not sure I go 
along with the thesis that you 
have to be nasty to win. I 
expect it is propaganda pot out 
by nasty people. 1 have talked 
to plenty of sports people: say, 
Steve Davis and Lucinda 
Green, both very big winners 
indeed, and you couldn't wish 
to meet more pleasant, more 
generous-natnred people. 

But Dune is nice; and she 
loses such a lot of m at ch es. 
Even when she wins, she puts 
her poor audience through it 
How many match points did it 
take you to win your first- 
round match in Melbourne, 
Jo? “I had eight, and she 
played unbelievably on them 
all, and I thought. I'm just not 
destined to win today, and I 
won, and I was up here, you 
know, and then you think; for 
heaven's sake; it is only one 
match, you need to win 
another seven to win a grand 
slam tournament!” 

She really suffers out there 
on the tennis court If Merv 
Hughes is a parody of an 
Australian cricketer, surely 
Durie is the perfect caricature 
of a female F ^gHsh tennis 
player. She can hit the ball all 
right, she can play shots just as 
well as anyone. Apart from 
when h is match point, of 
course: It is playing matches 
she finds so difficult Every 
match she plays is punctuated 
by double faults in big games, 
screeches of angtmh, and the 
loud, bitter teflmgs-off she 
gives herself There is nothing 
easy about being Jo Done. 

“Last year was particularly 
awful,” she said. “I was in¬ 
jured, shoulder and bade, but I 
was so desperate to play 1 only 
took two weeks off; came 
back, got injured again, trying 
to play matches, getting 
emotionallly distraug ht J tell¬ 
ing myself Tve got to play, got 
to play 1 — oh, it was stupidT 
Durie finished the year with 
a couple of good wins in the 
European Cup, and feels in 
better physical shape than she 
has done fora white. “Before I 
was panting after a five-stroke 



GRAHAM WOOD 


Simon 

Barnes 


rally, and that sort of thing 
reaUy does crat# you.” Every 
tennis match is a Via Dolorosa 
for Durie. And this year began 
with the kind of inauspicious- 
ness in which she rather 
specializes: far the first rime 
for about 10 years, she had to 
play a qualifying match before 
she could play in the main 
tournament, one that took 
place in Sydney. It was a 
measure of how far she has 
slipped. 

“Oh, that wastage! I was so 
nervous, so desperate to go 
straight through, that I lost m 
three sets. It was a pretty awful 
match. It wasn't very nice. I 
had said to myself ‘You've 
got to {day qualifiers, all right, 
go out and {day them’... but 
once you’re there, for the first 
time in years... it’s tough.” 

So why the hell does she pul 
herself through aD this? “Well, 
1 have been getting frustrated. 
I have been ranked five in the 
world. I’ve won tournaments. 
When you’ve been, there and 
you know you can do it, it is 
frustrating being ranked 118, 
and losing to A. N. Other. At 
times, Tve been a fait self- 
pitying, which is something I 
despise. I try to get out of it, 

and than I find Pm sinking , 

why meeetf 

“I fry so hard. And then I 
said, ‘If you don't start enjoy¬ 
ing your tennis, Jo,’ I said, 
‘then you're not bloody play¬ 
ing any more*. Why put 
yourself through? It's stupid! 

“But I still do it I atppose I 
do it because I get such abuzz. 
It’s like a drug. You are out 
there and performing, and 
there arc people dapping and 
appreciating what you do. I 
love that, I absolutely kne that 

_playing in front of people, 

even when I'm bad. You go 
away on a playing trip for 
maybe six weeks, you get tired 
and jaded, especially if you 
don't do so well, and you 
think, Td like to go home 
now*. And I'm home fix' five 
days, and it’s‘what shall I dd? 

I can’t wait to be off again. I 
won’t ever drag mysdf around 
the circuit, but as long as I still 
get that buzz... 

So what, then, is the dif¬ 
ference between Durie now 
and the Durie of 1983, when 
she was creaming everyone in 
sight? “There is a huge dif¬ 
ference in my tennis — I'm a 
much better player than I was 
when I was No. 3.1 was 23,1 
was on a roll, and I couldn't 
believe what was going on. I 



‘Racing weight’ fails 
to sway Burridge 
in favour of National 

By Michael Seely, Racing Correspondent 

Desert Orchid was yesterday the head right away. But now Jenny Pittnan s Bunougb Hill 


allotted a tempting I2st 21b in 
the Seagram Grand National, 
but the vexed question of the 
participation of the nation's 
favourite racehorse has yet to 
be answered. 

“Desert Orchid is running 
at Ascot tomorrow” said 
Richard Burridge. the major¬ 
ity shareholder in the flying 
grey. “I'll be talking to David 
Elsworth and the other owners 
about National plans then, but 
at the moment it is extremely 
unlikely that he’ll run.” 

However, Elsworth, already 
with one victory to his credit 
in the world's most demand¬ 
ing steeplechase with Rhyme 
‘N* Reason, obviously still 
considers that the class of last 
season's Cheltenham Gold 
Cop winner will be a big plus 
factor at Ain tree. “That's the 
first winner I backed this 
year,” said the trainer at 
yesterday’s Seagrams lunch to 
announce the publication of 
the weights. 

“It is exactly what I pre¬ 
dicted and as far as I am 
concerned hopes are still alive 
that he will run in the Nat¬ 
ional. It’s a racing weight If 
we had been given 12st 61b or 
more then we would have 
banged the idea of running on 


there is more of a possibility 
that he will take his chance. 
However, no decision will be 
mI»w until after the Gold 
Cup." 

Elsworth’s rival trainers 
called the whole question of 
the handicapper’s reasoning 
into question. “To an extent it 
appears that Desert Orchid is 
being considered to be a horse 
apart and therefore entitled to 
preferential treatment. 

Christopher Mordaunt, the 
Jockey Club handicapper, has 
taken the unusual course of 
issuing a detailed statement. 
He said: “There is one basic 
reason why I have given 
Desert Orchid a higher weight 
than one would usually expect 
in the Grand National. 1 can't 
just look atone horse, I had to 
look at the handicap as a 
whole. 

“The new rules state that 
the top weight in the race shall 
not be allotted less than 11 
stone 101b- A higher weight 
can, however, be allotted if the 
handicapper feels that the 
horse in question is of suf¬ 
ficient ability to warrant this.” 

Inevitably, the allotting of 
12st 21b to Desert Orchid 
brings comparison with the 
12st Sib given by Mordaunt to 


GRAND .NATION AL WEIGHTS 


dodgy matches, but I hap- 
to win them. It just kept 


Return to sendee Durie demonstrates the poise that once derated her to No. 5 in the world 

long time to come to terms 
with this. And if s all a lot 
harder now than it was then. 

“It*s comparatively easy to All the players ranked up to 70 
got on court, and thought, Tm ^ very good indeed. Ifs 
going to wm\ I had some very tough. It really is tough.” 


get into the top 10. If s awfully 
hard to stay there. That’s what 
hit me. In New York that year, 
I was No. 3 seed, and people 
were frying to beat me. Before, 
I had been frying to best them. 
I was in a totally different 
position, do you see that? And 
I couldn't come to terms with 
it at all, I was trying not to 
lose, trying to defend my 
seeding and my ranking, 
whereas before, I had just been 
going for everyone. I couldn't 
cope with it, a totally different 
mental approach. It took me a 


ryou want to irritate Durie, 
then suggest gHUy that she see 
a sports psychologist — or a 
“sports psychiatrist”, as she 
rather revealingty terms that 
profession, dearly believing 
that such people are only for 
loonies. “I don’t believe in 
myself enough, but Tm getting 
there;” she said. “Self-belief 
has always been a weakness of 
min e when it comes to the 
crunch. It is something that I 
work at in my own ways.” 

Durie is often criticized for 
what is seen as a lack of 


courage. Me, I think there is 
an enormous amount of cour¬ 
age in Jo Durie, quite a 
colossal amount Tennis is, 
more than anything else, a 
game of psychological 
domination, and she knows 
that she has yielded the 
psychological advantage again 
and again. But she keeps 
playing. 

She has been rattled, shaken 
and humiliated over and over 
again, but there is something 
wonderfully indomitable 
about her. “Tve got no plans 
for retirement,” she said. “Ob¬ 
viously, ru have to stop 
sometime, but not now, while 
I'm still passionate about it I 
want to enjoy it now, win or 
lose... come what may....” 


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HOCKEY 


England and Ireland fly out 


The England and Ireland teams 
left Manchester yesterday in the 
same aircraft bound for Lahore, 
the venue for the seventh World 
Cup, where they will confront 
each other in the National 
Stadium on Monday. 

For sides seeking success in a 
difficult group, the situation is 
important more so for Richard 
Leman, the England captain, 
and Mark Bums, an experienced 
midfield campaigner for Ire¬ 
land. Both will be making their 
hundred] outdoor appearance 
for their respective countries, 
and each will expect to celebrate 
the occasion with a victory. 

In the run-up to the World 
Cup. England and Ireland have 
understandably avoided playing 
each other, their last meeting 
going as far back as 1987. in 
Dublin, where England won 2-1. 

Bemie Cotton, the England 
manager, struck a note of hope 
for England before departure. “I 
am happier now that the loose 
ends have been tied up,” he said. 


By Sydney Friskin 

“We were patchy early on, but 
came together nicely at Luton in 
October to bold Australia to a 
goalless draw in the Lada Clas¬ 
sic. That was a true indication of 
our potential.” 

The new players, according to 
Cotton, were doing well three 
months ago — but the experi¬ 
enced ones were not There had 
been concern over the loss of 
form by Batchelor, Kerly, 
Grim ley and Leman, bin be was 
glad to see that Batchelor and 
Kerly, particularly after they 
had come back from a short rest, 
had recovered their touch. 
“Kerly has begun to score goals 
again,” Cotton said. 

"I have always had the great¬ 
est respect for Ireland as a 
team," he added. “When we 
beat them 2-1 in Dublin, both 
our goals were scored from short 


Cotton and his coach, Nor¬ 
man Hughes, watched Inland's 
second match against The 
Netherlands at Bioemendaal 
early last month, when the Irish 
lost 2-0. Later in the month, 
they went to Amiens to see them 
beat France 3-1. They, no doubt, 
formed their own impressions 
of where their strengths and 
weaknesses lie. 

ENGLAND; S Taylor (Stourpon). S Row- 

landi (Havant). P Boftrad (Hmmalow). D 

Faulkner (Havant). J Haifa (Old 

Loughtontara). J PoBar (Hounslow), R KU 

(Harant). M Grinriay (Hounslow). S 
BaKhator (Southgate). R Lamm (East 

Grinstrad. captain! c Mayar (Cannock). R 

Garda (Havant). 3 Kaity (Southgate). H 

can (East Grmstaacr). N Thompeon (Old 
LougMonans). Soma Singh (Southgate). 

IRELAND: B McCaba (MonkstewnL P 

Steer (Limerick PYMA), G Borne (Cork 

Church of Ireland). M Bum (HoNwood 

B7). L Canning (Throe Rock Roma). P 

Cooke (Moseley). K Empty (Cork Church 

Ol Ireland), 8 Fftgea (Avoca), J Kirkwood 


corners, and we were lucky. The (usrenjarvm). WMcCoonea {Hoiywood 
records show that the balance of btj.J MtKra (Hoiywood 87). s Martin 


power rests with England but, 
when we meet on Monday, all 
things will be equaL” 


(Hoiywood 87), I Morris (Lisnaganm). K 

Morris (Hoiywood 87). ft Sloan 
esptan). B Welch (Cork 
at Ireland). 


TODAY’S FIXTURES 


7.30 unless stated 

FOOTBALL 

Leytand Oaf Cap 
Quarter-finals 
Hereford v Notts Co.. 


Maidstone v Exeter (8.0)- 


Zenlth Data Systems Cup 
South Area Semi-final 
C Palace v Swindon (7 AS)- 


Barclays League 
Fourth division 
Peterborough v Hartlepool— 

B and Q Scottish League 
First division 

Hamilton v Airdrie —........ - 

Second (Svision 
Queen of Sth v 8rechin. 


OTHER SPORT 
SNOOKER: Benton and Hedges Masters 
ONwnMnrt. 

TENTHS: LTA Mana Ch tf anger (Tetort). 


BASKETBALL: E u rosport 9-llene H*gh- 
Hgna from ms Etecpvn eftcrit 
BOXING: S c rt e m port 7620am and 6- 
7.30pm: Top Rank retd Prafaeejoeal 
events hem the Unfed Sates: Etnsport 
8-1 Opm: World cbemptoaeMp simL 

Eurosport l-qne 


Staling Aftfton v Cowdenbeath™. 

FA TROPHY: Second round: Wofdng v 
Smnam Rad Stan Ctwttanfem v Enftokt 
Yeovd v Aylesbury: Fambrough v Windsor 
and Eton. Saconri naDd rsptoy: WaKng v 
Teftcrd. 

CM VAUXHALL CONFERENCE Bob Lord 
Trophy: Second rand: Boston v Fisher. 
VAUXHALL LEAGUE: AC Dalco Cup: 
Fourth raxict Uxbridge v Averiey (7.45). 
KFS LOANS LEAGUE CUP: TWrri round: 
Cohe Dyramoas v Rossemtte llta. 
LEAGUE OF IRELAND: Pm teil ter Cap; 
Second round: Qenavon v BafiymaM; 
Cfrftonvfle V Gfentoren 0L45). 

PONTWS CENTRAL LEAGUE: ftret «*■ 
irfsiME Biacktwn v Aston Vila (7.0): Hid * 
Evensn (70); Newcastle v Darby (7.(8: 
Noran Forest v Manchester CHy (7.0). 
Second dMsfon: Blackpool vBot®n(7.0): 
Stoke V Wtaan (7 Jfc west Bran v 
Sunderland (75); York v Port Vtfe (7.0). 
OVENOEN PAPERS COMUNAYXM: 
BhgMon v Rearing (7.15k Fulham v 

Crystal miaca (2JQ; ipsmchv Southamp¬ 
ton (2il); Oxford Utdv Chariton (2JQ. 

RUGBY UNION 

CUfflMATWES;<^m&ridgeU«hrer*ityv 
The Army (3JJk Cheltenham v UeMald 
(7 0): Cfifton v Bristol Untantiiy: UsneM v 
Soutn GBamnrgan hM^pjO^tjaney^v 

§tord^University fiLSffk^Ebbw Vate'v 
Cardiff (7.15). Hoaptei* Cop; Seed-find: 
St Marfa v Charing Cross-Westminster 
(Moapur Park. £30). 

RUGBY LEAGUE 
SLALOM LAGER ALLIANCE: Hurtfet v 
wow* (Huddrefeid. 7-30). • 


EUROSPORT MENU: Eu to ap o rt 830- 
9am. 

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mktmg ht Real Madrid v Mstorcs 
S cra a iw po rt «.l56gm and iipm-lam: 
SpaBish Laogaa: SariOa v Afeaeo Madrid 
and Real Madrid v Mallorca. 

OOLF: Serean s pocf 7 JO-930pm: United 
States PGA: HMi&gMs of the AT and T 
Pabbta Daoeli Odme Ewomott 56ant 
H sj ti fl g htt of die Jamaica Cteaate Dram 
Montego Bay. 

ICE HOCKEY: Scraonsport 12.15-2.15pm: 
CSKA vChlcaga 

INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SPORT: 
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raws tmm around the vrortt. 
MO T O BCY C UMG: SsMtepoK 830- 
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Indeer Superemea from Geneva, and lc* 
S pee dwa y : World guam wB nMa tram 
Italy: Earoaport 8-7pm: Indoor 
SupercroM from Paris. 

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Dotes of the 1989 Foraa da One and 
Motorcycfiog drafts: Screanaport 2.15- 
3.15pm: World rely cham yto n ahlpa: 
Htgrogtes or the 1990 MOMS Carte rely. 
RACING: BBC2 2.1565fipnc 230, 305 
Snd 335 from Ascot 

RUGBY LEAGUE: Screenapod ia45am- 
12.15pm: Highlights of the 1990 French 
Cup: Ousnsr-Onata. 

aKWKl: Scraanapart 10-IOJOenr KM- 
totes of the Unfed Stem pm-teor from 

iStanda. 

SNOOKEft BBC2 4256pm: Cbwrage of 
the Benson and Hedges ItoMarefrom 

wemtdey: rrv lOJSprrHiadnighe HWv 
■gha or trw nrareoo Oasolc 

SPORTSNIGHT: BSC1 lO-lUSpriK 
Snooker Coverage of the Be ns on and 
Masters from Wembley, and 
: WMd Cap preview. 

TRANS WORLD SPORT: EWfepOtt 7- 
8pm: Sport tram around the world. 
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NETBALL 

Scotland’s 
best are 
outplayed 

By Louise Taylor 

The England learns were always 
going to win their home inter¬ 
nationals at both senior and 
uoder-21 level against Scotland 
ai Kelvin HalL The only thing in 
doubt was the margin of victory. 

In ihe event i t turned out to be 
69-28 for the seniors and 68-31 
for the juniors. When it is 
considered that Scotland had 
gone down 80-18 in Middles¬ 
brough three months ago the 
score in the senior match repre¬ 
sented something or an 
improvement. 

Scotland no doubt benefited 
from the fact that Joan Bryan, 
sc ore r of 60 goals in Middles¬ 
brough. was rested. In her 
absenc e . Karen Fcnlon claimed 
IS goals from 2S attempts, 
Trudy Papafio 23 from 26, and 
Sheila Edwards, 23 from 30. 
“Three very good scoring av¬ 
erages,” Betty Galsworthy, the 

England coach, said. 

With Bryan scheduled to 
return for the next home inter¬ 
national, against Wales in Poole 
in a fortnight's time, there will 
be an int e re sti ng competition 
for the positions of goal-attack, 

and goal-shooter. 

England players of the future 
were involved in the schools 
inter-county tournament at 
Leicester test weekend. Hert¬ 
fordshire triumphed in the 
under-16 category, followed by 
Essex Metropolitan, and Cum¬ 
bria. At under-19 level Essex 
Metropolitan proved winners, 
with Hertfordshire and Greater 
Manchester in the minor places. 


FISHING 


Stearay— 
Oregon TriL 


.MissS 


.J Edwards 8-9-8 
.R Lm 9-9-7 


Waddingtons are 
back in fashion 


Oiegsm 
Caadutea— 
L'AmRougo. 


Duffy Ore) 106-7 
—GHam 11-96 
~S Christian 1966 
.GRkhaids 1166 
_M Pipe 9-96 


_W A Stephenson 11-9-5 

_iGHuttwrd 11-G6 

AoakMt The arete 

ObnLw 


Young Driver _ 


D Mchcfcan 96-4 
1064 
D Gel 13-9-3 
Beny 10-9-2 


RiBWdy The Mstetef—M HoMnoon 9-92 
Over The Hoed_J Upson 992 


Cool Sun. 


Mrs J Pitman 10-9-2 
I Mbs J Eaton 1992 


iHtetter_D Murray SroNtl 12-9-0 

Prince___PHoPbe 11-96 

__P Moloney (be) 8-8-13 

• Mrs J Pftman 86-13 

-CTrieWne 126-13 

_T Forster 96-13 

F Lacy (he) 11-8-13 
M Morris S*J 106-13 
M Pipe 106-18 
OCoonoB fro) 86-13 
M Pipe 106-12 
NHondareon 96-12 
A Moore (Ira) 96-12 
G Richards 10-6-11 
ATumal 96-10 
D Barons 96-10 
.T Foster 106-6 
GHctWrdS 116-7 
PCundoU 106-7 
I Richards 13-86 
D Barons 966 
Mffpe 13-86 
Lady Hanfie 866 
-P Ransom 10-86 
J Edwards 866 
JGMonl 1166 
R Lee 962 
Mar Honed—~»W A Stephenson 9-82 

Red CotamMa-MWMnson 966 

O m—beak Park-RPeiMns1896 

-T BaSoy 11-8-0 

S Christian10-7-13 
S Motor 37-12 



GofttauMteaM- 

SamfldHteBoyJ 


Good Staten 
Unicoi 


MoeQreane_J McOomochto 137-10 

DHassea (be) 10-7-10 
Boy—Mbs A Idng 11-7-10 
D Wtnoa 1376 
.DGandovo 11-76 

_E O'Grady (Ire) Not quaSM 

Wdef*--F Jordan Not owSfled 

.PDHVisNotquaHied 


• MtahmanwokraiOat 
To be nrn over 4m 4f et AMrae on Apte 7. 

The bookmakers’ reaction 


By Conrad Voss Bark 


Modi to the surprise of the 
tackle shops in Pall Mall, the 
Waddington salmon flies are 
coming back into fashion. An¬ 
drew Witkowski, of Farlows, 
said: "They’ve taken quite a bit 
of the tube market. At one time, 
they west right out of fashion, 
but now there's this revrvaL No 
one knows why. Maybe someone 
caught a fish on one and the 
word went around.” 

In Scodand, tube flies, like the 
Willie Guam and CoUh? Dog, 
have become fashio n able on the 
Highland rivers, bat have not 
caught on down south, where 
hairwing doubles are the best 
sellers. “They are easier to tie.” 
Brendan Fitzgerald, of Hardys, 
said. “The trade is inclined to 
push them.” 

With hairwing doubles rank¬ 
ing firsL next in popularity for 
salmon fishing are the tubes and 
Waddingtons. with the Drury 
trebles and single-book, fully 
dressed flies well down on the 
list. Costs are up a tittle. Fully 
dressed singles range from just 
under £2 to £5.50 each, while 
hairwing doubles cost from 
£1.25 to £1.75. 


No one knows why hairwing 
doubles are so popular, although 
there are many theories. How¬ 
ever, the fact is that hardly any 
other fishermen use doable 
hooks. Practically all sea fish, 
from shark to conger, to bass 
and dabs, are taken on singles, 
except when using spinners. 

Sea trout, an anadromous fish 
like salmon, are virtually all 
taken on singles. Indeed, I 
cannot remember seeing a fly 
dressed on a double book for sea 
trout. 

Id the United States and 
Canada, you hardly ever find a 
salmon fisherman using flies on 
double hooks. Indeed, on some 
rivers, doubles and trebles are 
banned so that fish can be 
released without damage. 

Closer to home, if you go to 
fishing tackle shops in Irebind, 
most salmon flics are folly 
dressed on single hooks. Fly 
dressers with a worldwide reput¬ 
ation, like Bogan, of Donegal, do 
not have doubles on their lbn. It 
would be interesting to find out 
why we are different. 


CORALS: 131 Dasari OreWd (run or not). 
14-1 Brown Windsor. 131 Bo na nza Boy. 
The TWnker, 231 Cal Cofiect, Potyfanws. 
25-1 Bigsun, Bishops Yam. Gonckalvo. 
Durham Edition. Ghotar. Gotten Freeze, 
Hungry Hur. Joint Sowaralreity. Lastofthe- 
brownfes, Mr Frisk. Star's Dsflght, 
Strands Ol Gold. Zucfco. 331 others. 
WILLIAM MLL: 31 Desert OrcMd (mMi a 
run). 14*1 Bonanza Boy. Brown Windsor, 
231 The Thinker, Bishops Yam. Durtiam 
Edition. Potyfemus. Zuko. Mighty Mark. 
25-1 others. 


LADBROKES: 31 Desert Orchid (with 0 
run), 131 Bon a n za Boy, 131 Brown 
Windsor. 131 Durham EdUon. Pojyte- 
rnua, 231 The Thinker. Zuko, 25-1 
Bishops Yam, Condustve. Golden 
Freeze. Rtnto, west Tip. 331 others. 
TOTE: 7-1 Desert Orchid (run or not), 
131 Bonanza Boy. 14-1 Brown Windsor. 
231 Durham Edition. Bigsim. Bishops 
Yam, PoMemus, The Thttkar. 25-1 CbB 
CoiecL Condustro. Outer. Joint Sov¬ 
ereignty. Star's OaBgtn. Strands Of Gold, 
Zucto, 231 UndeMertn.331 others. 


Lad in 1985. 

Commenting on this, im 
handicapper went on: “At that 
time Burrough Hill Lad had a 
park course rating of 183 
against Desert Orchid’s cur¬ 
rent rating of 179. Also in 
those days, the top weight 
would usually have carried 
12st rather than today’s list 
101b. Desert Orchid will be 
meeting every horse in the 
race on at least 4lb better 
terms than he would in a 
normal handicap, as was the 
case with Burrough Hill Lad. 
It is all a question of balance.” 

This treatment has upset 
and angered several trainers. 
Nicky Henderson, the handler 
of Brown Windsor, the second 
favourite, spoke out strongly. 
“According to me. Desert 
Orchid should be on I2st 
I lib,” he said. “Where is the 
missing 9 Ib?I can understand 
the handicapper giving Desert 
Orchid a chance with 31b or 
41b less than my horse, but not 
91b. 

“I thought he would give 
Desert Orchid 12st2lb, but in 
that case Brown Windsor 
should have had lOst llh I 
know that he is allowed 
discretion, but the handicap^ 
per has let Desert Orchid in 
with 91b less than he should 
have carried. Everyone is very 
badly off with him, particu¬ 
larly The Thinker, who really 
has been hit hard.*’ 

Similarly, Toby Balding, al¬ 
ready successful in the race 
with Highland Wedding and 
Little PoWeir, said: “I don’t 
really see why Desert Orchid 
should be treated like this. He 
normally has to give 271b to 
my horse. Bishop's Yarn, but 
the difference is only 18Tb 
here. ” 

With eight of the first nine 
home last year entered again. 
Little Polveir having been 
retired, the handicapper has 
given The T hinke r, last year's 
runner-up and a former Gold 
Cup winner, second lop 
weight of list 91b. On this 
marie he is lUb worse treated 
with Desert Orchid than in a 
normal handicap. 

Talking about The Thinker 
and also Durham Edition, 
who finished fourth last year 1 
and was runner-up in 1988. 
Arthur Stephenson, who will 
be 70 on Grand National day 
this year, said; ‘The Thinker 
may be a lot better in with 
Bonanza Boy on last -year’s 
running, but Martin Pipe's 
horse has gone on since then 
and our horse has gone back. 
But if be comes back to 
himself we must have a 
chance. Durham Edition 
doesn't seem to get the trip, 
but all being well we will go for 
it again.” 

The 25-L on offer against 
Zuko looks tempting. Stan 
MeUor’s nine-year-old has 
won his last three races in style 
and was particularly impres¬ 
sive when beating Baliyhane 
at Ascot 


Morley Street in Champion 


Toby Balding has availed him¬ 
self of the opportunity presented 
by the re-scheduling of the 
Wcsscl Cable Champion Hurdle 
for Lcopardslown on Saturday 
by nominating Moricy Street 
The six-year-old also heads 
the five-day acceptors for the 
Toic Gold Trophy at Newbury 
on ihe same day. but Balding, 
recognizing that the Irish race 
would offer a better trial for the 
Champion Hurdle, is leaning 
towards an Irish venture. He 
will, however, have to make up 
his mind by tomorrow lo or¬ 
ganize travel arrangements. 

Morley Street is the only 
additional runner to the nine 
nominated at ihe same stage last 


From Our Irish Racing Correspondent, Dublin 

week. It was surprising to find 
Jim Bolger again accepting with 
Vcstris Abu as he withdrew him 
from the race last Friday with 
the intention of running him in 
the Stillorgan Hurdle. 

The two English challengers 
who journeyed over last week¬ 
end, Nomadic Way and Island 
Set. have spent the week in the 
subles at the Lcopardslown 


out for the Harold Clarke 
Lcopardslown Chase. Should 
the meeting be abandoned, 
Carviil’s Hill would then be re¬ 
routed to Navan on Sunday, 
when he is engaged in the 
Boardsmill Stud Boyne Hurdle. 

“This would certainly be far 
from an ideal race for Carviil’s 
Hill" Dreaper said, “but he 
badly needs a couple of runs if 
he is to be fit in time for the 
Gold Cup." 


racecourse. 

In the anic-post betting last 

Vessel acceptors 

though Moricy Street's parti- out 

cipation would totally after the ton) On re nreiy 7 - 11 - 7 .feattiSf j 3 t 3 
complexion of the race, JJ-t. mm Smt 311 - 7 . Moray strat 3 

Jim Dreaper confirmed that To rafew 311-7. 

Carviil’s Hill will definitely mm 


SPORT FOR THE DISABLED 


BSAD report extra interest 


The British Sports Association 
for the Disabled (BSAD) has 
reported a marked upsurge, by 
sports governing bodies, in in¬ 
terest in the development of 
sport for people with 
disabilities. 

It attributes the new mood to 

an implicit threat from the 

Sports CoundL following the 
minister's review group report, 
that an effective strategy for 
sport for the disabled will in 
time become a condition for the 
receipt of grants. At present, 
governing bodies are under no 
statutory obligation 10 provide 
such strategy, although some do 


By Jane Wyatt 

receive payments to help with 
specific projects. 

There is a huge disparity in 
the way in which governing 
bodies respond to the needs of 
their disabled clients. Some still 
refuse 10 have anything to do 
with such competitors: others 
are prepared to offer almost 
total integration. 

The BSAD’s national opera¬ 
tions officer, Richard Hunt, 
cites ihe National Small Bore 
Rifle Association (NSBRA) as 
one of the most exemplary in 
this area. Only last September, 
the NS&RA's representative 


watched the disabled champ¬ 
ionship. and he subsequently 
rewrote the rules for the dis¬ 
abled event. As a result, this 
March, it will be held alongside 
the British Open air-gun 
championships at Hulmc. near 
Manchester. 

The key lo belter sports 
provision lies with teaching, and 
a number of organisations are 
actively encouraging coaches to 
become aware of the necessity 
for special skills. The Am a 1 cur 
Swimming Association, for 
example, has an award for 
teachers who undertake disabil¬ 
ity awareness training. 


STUDENT SPORT 


Mugglestone revels in the mud 


Sjmon Mugglestone, of Oxford 
University, ran away with the 
British Students' individual 
cross-country title at Guildford 
at the weekend, finishing I 
minutes ahead of Rob Whallcy, 
of Staffordshire Polytechnic, in 
a gruelling 12’^-kilometre mud 
race (Mike Lamb writes). 

Mugglestone. a previous 
European junior 5.000 metres 
champion, revelled in the con¬ 
ditions. He broke from ihe 
leading pack of four after a mile 
and never looked bade, finishing 
in 45rain Sfece. 

The women's race, which was 
run in high winds and sleet over 


five kilometres, saw Claire La¬ 
vers. of Cambridge University, 
lead from the start to record 
21 min 46see. Lynn Robinson, 
from Warwick, was second. 

RESULTS: Mm 1. S Mugolosfone (Ox¬ 
ford Umv), 45mn 56soc. 2. R Whatoy 
(Stdffonl3hlra POM. 47:33: 3. V Gamer 
(STwHwW Poly), 47:43: 4. M Roberta 
iSteffOrOaterg PpM. 47*0; S. D BetaVal of 
(Leeds Umv), 47-52; fi, J Sbertsan (Loads 
Poiyj. 4821; 7, A Lyons (Lougft&orougn 
Untv). 48:29: B. R Wost (Louhoorough 
Unnf), 48-30; 9. 0 Leo (Lougnborougn 
Untvj. 4844. 10. M Hucaptm (Dumarn 
Untv). 48J7. Trane IWwnHn: 1. 
Lougnborougn. I25pta; 2. Oxtoid. 152; 3. 
Baimnghwn. 194, Cofcgattl, Crowe and 
Atwgv. 497; ?, w<Ht London ihe, 1,003; 
3, South Gunwgon ihe. 1.369. P*r- 
tocMca: i. StsttorttsMs, 1GG; 2, snet- 


tiett. 470, 3. lamia. 593. B roe*J. A 
Jonos (Loughtnrougn Urtv). 35mln 
21 doc: 2, M Lawton (Lougnborougn Untv). 
3530: 3. A Tarry (Lougnoorougb U[*3 
36:07. Town: 1. Loughborough Utaft 
15pEK 2. Cambridge Umv. 39; 3. Ozfcrt 
Unlv, 47. Woman: f. C LMnlCombridgo 
IMtyJ. 2timn 46 hc: 2. I 
(Warwick Unty. 21:52; 3, L tmek 
(Loughborough UiWL 2148; *. 9 Rhodm 
(Blnwngham Unft). 22:11: 5. C Nawman 
(Loogn&orougn Unwj. 22:19. 0. M Now 
mun (Lougnborougn Cod). 22:23; 7. K fte 
(W ol ra h amplgn Pay). 223*. 0. SP*TO 
(Oxford UrWv). 22.34; 9. J Edwuf di (Oxford 
urtvL 22.30:10. M Kftson (Wost London 
Co*). 224L Tram; IMvoteWM: 1. 
Loughborough. 44pts; 2. Oxford. GO: 3. 
gtmnaham. 74. Cafegra; 1. J**wt 
London (HE. 2. Cmwo and 
183; 3, si Mm and St Jam's. 3a7. 
PtavteChnt CK l. Loods. 219; 2. Smltord- 
chho, 33JL 3. UvwpooJ. 352. 


BOWLS 


Bryant wastes no time 
in returning to action 


By David Rhys Jones 
David Bryant's failure to win a 
medal m the Commonwealth 

Comes shattered hopes of a 
remarkable record for an 
outstanding champion. 

Win Bryant now retire from 
international competition 7 
Early evidence suggests that the 
irrepressible 58-year-otd bowler 
from Chrvedon. after briefly 
licking his wounds, will be keen 

to defend his world outdoor title 
at Worthing in 1992. and, if 
successful, would be a strong 
contender for Victoria in 1994. 

Bryant, who won gold medals 
in 1962. 1970. 1974 and 1978. 
arrived home this week. He 
intends to get in some early 
practice for Liberty Trophy 
semi-final between Somerset 
and Middlesex indoor; at the 
Athericy Club in Southampton 
on Saturday. Next week he will 
play in bis area singles final at 
Nailsca in Avon, where he 
hopes to qualify for the national 
indoor championships at Mel¬ 
ton Mowbray, which he has won 
nine times. 

On February 20. Brvant starts 
h» bid for the Embassy world 
indoor singles title at Preston 
with a tough first-round match 
against Robert McCulloch, of 
Scotland. He will have little 
time to dwell on his defeats in 
Auckland by Richard Corsic. 
also of Scotland, and Rob 
Parrdla. of Australia. 


England's performance in the 

Games was g pn^ i^fly as dis¬ 
appointing as Bryant's, with 
only Jayne Roy lance sod Mary 
jrice gaining a medaL- Wendy 
Line, the holder of the women’s 
singles, lost three games to 
finish third in her section, while 
tnc men's pair of Gary Smith 
and Andy Thomson had a 
similar record. The fours 
skipped by Mavis Steele and 
T°ny. Allcock challenged 
strongly but narrowly foiled lo 
quality for the medal ptny-ofls. 

Scot land's gold and Northern 
Irelands silver in the men’s 
fours salvaged some late pride 
for the United Kingdom. Mar- 
sarct Johnston, of Northern 
Iretend. and Corsic both col- 
lecied brorae medals - but 

champa^. “ °° subfliluie for 

The gusting wind was a 
constant irritation, die 
monsoon one day a nuisance, 

« l i l vJd C rSf CnS 

miuS. ^ “PPmral of the 
of competitors - es- 
PcctaUy ihe Australians and 

them Who aroan 8 

tn«n won nine medals. 

The unbalanced draw, es- 

mcn ’ s V* 1 ™- 

t tie greatest came of conccro. - 
spealti^Booi 
gf^‘ n ^ lhe v gy the sections had 
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By Mandarin 
(Michael Phillips) 

Having been denied aglorious 
chance to register his thirtieth 

rareer victory at Sandown last 

Saturday, Desert Orchid now 
has almost as good a prospect 
of reaching that fcuxfaiaikai 
Ascot today in the Charter- 

9 house Mercantile Chase. 

I say almost because at 
Sandown he would have had 
to -give only 2llb away all 
round, but he must now con¬ 
cede .two stone to all but 
Rusch De Farges, 

However, that should not 
be beyond him on a course 
where he has won eight times 
already. The handicapper 
would require more of him if 
the others raced off their 
official ratings rather rhan 
having to cany the rninimmn 
weight of 10 stone. 

While conceding that sev¬ 
eral good prizes have beat 
woo this season by horses out 
of - the handicap: proper, I 
believe Desert Orchid has 
... sufficient class and entim* 
< siasm with which to counter 
the challenge. 

His only defeat, this season 
was by Long Engagement over 
two miles at Sandown but it 
has become abundantly clear 
that the minimum trip is now 
much too short for him. Stay¬ 
ing is his forte. 



Richard Duuwoody: good 
prospects of an Ascot doable 

If it were not, he would 
never have won last season’s 
Tote Gold Cup at' Cheltenham 
let alone the Whitbread Gold 
Cup over even further at 
Sandown the season before. 

If Desert Orchid is h ^at cn 
today it will not, in my 
opinion, be by either of Josh 
Gifford's pair, Ballyhane or 
Paddyboro, nor by Ten Of 
Spades. I believe the greatest 
danger is from Man O’Magic, 
who has been trained with 
such skill by Kim Bailey to 
win eight of his last 11 races. 

Richard Dunwoody r * n put 
himself in the right frame of 
mind for his enviable ride on 


Balding stays at Fyfield 




Toby Balding confirmed yes¬ 
terday that he will not be 
moving to Whitcombe Manor 
Stables in Dorset (George Rae 
writes). 

Balding and British Thor¬ 
oughbred Racing and Breeding 
(BTRB) have been in lengthy 
negotiations with Peter Bolton, 
the owner of Whitcombe 
Manor, but talks were broken 
off aft er a Gulure to agree terms. 
BTRB own Balding’s Fyfield 
stables and have the trainer 
under contract 

One factor was the approach 


of Cheltenham. With the Nat¬ 
ional Hunt Festival only five 
weeks away, the pressures of 
time mi Balding to move his 
operation were too great 

Bolton and his trainer Rich¬ 
ard Mitchell, the present occu¬ 
pant of the multi-million pound 
training complex, are to part 
company at the end of the 
National Hunt season. 

Bolton has always maintain**! 
contacts with other possible 
candidates but his plans to 
announce a successor to Mitch¬ 
ell may now have to be delayed. 


Desert Orchid by winning the 
Daniel Homes Novices* Chase 
on Another Coral who, having 
won twice at Cheltenham, 
then lost no caste in defeat at 
Kempton when beaten by the 
useful Decided. 

Man Of The West attempts 
to win the A F Budge Novices’ 
Hurdle, sponsored by his 
owner, but I feel he will be 
thwarted by Atlaal who did 
well for a comparative begin¬ 
ner to win the Lanzarote 
Handicap Hurdle at Kempton 
last time. 

If Peter Scudamore fails to 
win the Daily Telegraph Hur¬ 
dle on Mrs Muck he will have 
to answer to his wife, Marilyn, 
who has been so instrumental 
in the making of (he mare in 
their friend and neighbour 
Nigel Twiston-Davies’ yard. 

Scudamore later continues 
his association with Celtic 
Shot in the Old Road Securi¬ 
ties Reynoldstown Novices’ 
Chase in an attempt to clarify 
plans for Cheltenham. But in 
my view be will do well to 
outstay Garrick Hill Lad, who 
is unbeaten over fences. 

For the day's best bet, I have 
no hesitation in nominating 
Formula One to win the Ten- 
bury Novices’ Chase at Lud¬ 
low, even though he fell at 
Chepstow last time out in bis 
first chase. In feet he did not 
touch a twig of the last fence, 
he simply knuckled over on 
landing when holding a 

mm man ning lead. 

Inspection at 
Huntingdon 

There will be a precautionary 
9 JO inspection at Huntingdon 
today to determine prospects for 
tomorrow’s meeting. There has 
been a lot of rain in the area and 
more is forecast. 

Worcester’s meeting next 
Wednesday has already been 
abandoned because the course is 
flooded. 


SOUTHWELL 


Selections 

By Mandarin 
1.40 Birmingham’s Pride. 2.10 Hydeonius. 2.40 
Peetgkow. 3.10 Renshaw Wood. 3.40 Kenilworth 
Castle. 4J0 Whitewash. 


Going: standard 

1.40 HONK JUVENILE NOVICES HURDLE (4-Y-O: 
£1,618b 2m) (12 runners) 

1 . i BBHBNGHAiirepRioEW(C)RHoMwhe«jiwi 

2 OK BMtEYNOWIINBnawIM— 

3 


.PAftorel 


l^ 


51*00 J-TGC BOV SO l Strap!* iD-9—- 

6 00 POTPHAR41P Bewjfnom 108-- = 

7 25 RADISH V LEMON 10 J Parma 1M-NSoMi(7) 

a 5 saTwxffmwxHymto*. 

0 BR0E FOR A DAY WCtoylM- 

ID FOP JUST A W UBPD tgR WMngNH 

11 NEAME HNNA IMF J Monai 104 

12 PP PAST MDMOHr 37 □ Carey 1(U 
5-2 BtortnghanYs Pride. 11-4 




SMtaxtap) 
- P 


_ _ Bftntoah e in'a---- 

Lemon, 0-2 Christmas Hoto, 5-1 Maanto 


Bailey Mow. 4-1 Radtoh 77 
santo Mma, 12-1 




2.10 RACfNQ POST ALL WEATHER CHALLENGE 
HANDICAP HURDLE (Round IX: £1,548:2m) (5) 

1 1813 HILL BEAQLE 2S (QXF,S) W Gay 10-11-10 R Bavan (7) 

2 ZD-P CHESWOLO 22 mAJ Johnson B-11-0-B Stony 

3 ISM MVDKXfJUS 15JQtorer5-11-8 -RHhay 

4 <012 MHSARSMQ14(CDRF)TThomson Jonea 7-108 

LWyav 

5 2333 CAJUN DANCER5 (VJ J HarrisS-1WJ-JAHanfa 

S 1012 THE UQHTEB SIDE S(CP^)BPnwca 4-16 0 . ^ 

11-4 MR Beagle. 100-30 RafwarafrM, 74 The Ugrtar Skle. 
5-1 Cajun Dancar. 10-1 Hydaoriua, 20-f ChaawokL 

Course specialists 

TRABCR8: Mm D HaMa, 7 winners from 21 
Hottoabeed, 8 from 27. 29.8%; M Ryan, 5 from 18,27.8%; N 
Bradley. 3 from 13. 23.1%; B Pleece. 9 from 59, 158%; B 
McMahon. 4 from 32.128%. 

JOCKEYS: A Juckes. 3 winners from 11 rideft,Z78%;a»*0ey. 
7 from 28. 258%; S Srmtn Ecchto, 10 from 41, «£%; Gary 
Lyons. B from 34. 238%: L Wyw. 7 from 35, 200%. (Only 

quaffiare). 


2.40 MONSEIGNEUR SELUNG HANDICAP HUR¬ 
DLE (£1,744: 2m 2f) (12} 

1 MOP LEON53(PJBWOayS-12-0_R Boren (7) 

2 2654 YAMANOUCM IS J Johnson 8-10-10—— B Storey 

3 040 BOH RETOUR Ifl J Parkas 5-10-9_NSnftbrf 

4 320 PEERQUW10 (neWBams 6-100_SKstabSsy 

5 21OS KEEP STRAIGHT 41 (C)K Ryan 4-104_RFatey 

S 0-03 MOLOCH 10MrsSAustii7-160_DWBdaaoa 

7 ooo SO QOTED10 J Norton 4-100_S Woods (3) 

5 0541 C0MTEC FR0KE M (GU3) B FBnoy 5-100 N Catomsn 
9 F034 PENLLYNCS PHDE14 (BJF.G) R JUGfeBS 9-10-0 

10 /BP SW0ALET7O22BMcMsfioa6-10-0_TWsS 

11 -OPO BRWTOPAHSWY43PBam5-100_RMariay 

12 PIPO 8ARNMB0UWH Mm P Barker 5-100—ClfBMfcta 
0-4 Pooratow. 4-1 Keep Straight 5-1 Yamanouchl. 7-1 Mo¬ 
loch. 8-1 flardyrra'a Pride, 5-1 Bon ftaaxr. !M others. 

3.10 VERGER NOVICES HURDLE (£1,576: 3m) (B) 

1 -048 BANKER’S Q03SS* 10 D Nicholson 6-10-10 

: ■ RBlMli sy ffi 

2 MB RtffiJWCETJPnrce 11-10-10_SKrfpMtey 

3 BLAMOLOaMtotTH22FM Rwi 0-10-10 JMcLsufrin 

4 U0 MJRSOOMM04PMRMn&-lBlO-— 

5 44*4 ANOflCR 8CALLY OC DlngwaO 7-iM-L Wysr 

0 300 IKSEMBRYANIHBIUMlirARunsay 5-104 WHaysa 

7 OPO IBIS PEPPERPOT7 IB* IMcMoT-HKi - LHanmy 

8 2322 mOHAWWOODM^PBaamantlBIM 

HlAfM 

11-4 BankaTa Gossip. 100-30 Ranahaw Wood. 5-1 Wand 
Locfcanrim. 7-1 S3ka Domino. Mm PapperpoL 10-1 other*. 

3A0 CURATE NOVICES HANDICAP HURDLE 
(£1,604:2m4f)(9) 

1 1181 STORM WARRUR 5 (B80j8)BPnoos 5-12-4 Ota) 

A Judds (7) 

2 1061 KEJ0LWORTH CASTLE B (RAF) R Ho&shwO 4-11-12 

3 -40F BBCHPARK21DMeMaon5-1 i£^. Rl 

4 MS FAME AND GLORY 18 JfWfrM 5-HM-N 

5 MOF QRACE BECK 2B p) P BauanoM5-100—PAI 

8 P001 S&J9IT PR»raS 4F f/ 80) J Harris 4-100 J A Harris 

7 5PS2 SCOTS QAP 35 A Stringer WOO-C Dwarfs 

9 4032 8BKXKD BAY 14 M Bonadaugh S-100 

8 000 BHARKAT14 J Norton 4-100_ 


At 
. S Woods! 


3-1 Beech Park, 7-2 KorUwarfl) Castle. 4-1 Storm Warrior, 
5-1 Start mnoaaa, 10-1 Soots Qap, SfroctoBfey, 16-1 othars. 

4.10 VICAR HANDICAP HURDLE (£1,818: 2m 4Q 
( 8 ) 

1 F020 ITAUANTOUB 41 AS) Mrs GPkwrigM 10-12-0 

JCaSsMua(7) 

2 FW> TRBRARLAD8ff)PDads5-11-12_—HDaria 

3 2111 WHITEWASH S ftC0)frfc» D HStna ^ 

4 -122 ROCKMAimN S3 (BFF& J Johnson 5-11-11 B Stony 

5 0055 TnEBONOBHSIOlp^^JSWhone-ll^—tWysr 

S 2SU SWSTSMBIlAmMnARMCfllS-103-— 


4-6 Whitewash. 7-2 Rockmardn. 5-1 TMonkare, 8-1 Tre- 
marLad, 10-1 RattnTotr, 16-1 Sweet Sirenia. 


Results from yesterday’s three meetings 




Warwick 

Goins: toft 

UU2mhdto)1.NMJAj 
1 fr-fav): Z L«KJen (M | 

BoM Choice (J Fttm, 3-1 .. -- 

RAIt 5 Daunou (4thl, 8 Non Parmgiart 
18th). 12 Afliarado (pu». Peak Dw&ioffl, 14 
Cnseky Fox. 16 Mr Dormou»« ( 5«i>. 25 
Ccwarm. GaBc Bata UW). 50 Attwon 
Princa. Rrsi AdmeaL Tommy An (put 14 
ran. NR- bi^JBtrtence- 4L SI, »L H 7LD 
Meftnlun at Scow^xvttMr-WokL TotR 
£4.80: eiso. £8^0. E1.70. Dft £5160 
CSF: £58.18. 

1J0 (2m Me) 1i RMtA-RITHAIfll (M 

cHpooza 100 Annws R^Hdcfle A 
UOe. RsMng Seyon. Gjggon JP«L 
Loot Pride (pu). Slmnta. TW*^ SOW. 
Toutfi Out 1PMJ-TrMtmy. 22 nrtNR 
Smooth Start. HcL BLjC 5L 4L frfra J 

£3320 _ 

asnsMS-ftSS 


MffiPowaa. 
rad (M Lynch. 
m the Gram 
Outside Edge 
(4th). 20 Mernoerson P*S*2j25: 
Sion (pu). 33 Trout 

Park (pu). 100 WootantoLad. it raa SL 
20. hS. 12L 4L T Porstor at Lafrwtfie 
Bessett. ThmtMftgi j?; 

DP: 2BJXL CSF: £14-60- Tricas t in lw a- 




4 Ji-faw i 

AcdbnMtfr' * sinteitoiav ioul 12 Mid 

Bunar(!).: 

£4ntk £150. £35a £22a DF. £285a 


t. 7-1). ALSO 

nMthJ.3 MWWM « Mnm 

J®SB!a?BSSS« 


ao (2m 5f Me) 1. ROtWW PIUNCS^ 
ALSO RAN: 4-11 lav Pottomps Network 

KSSST-^ 

SSSwtor. & £ 020 ; ElEft £im OF: 

£1050. CSF: £27^0. 

3J0 (2m 41 Ch) 1. PARTY POLITICS (A 
Aoksns. «>-1): & Romany Kfew(R Quest. 
5-it 3, Under Offer { BfleHa an.ll-^. 
ALSO RAN: 9-2 lw Gatttratown ttuL 5 
RdrilM Thraa (Sth), 6 ftwidMton&^L9 
Wtott Your Prootem (pu). 12 CrokOe 
Guerre. 16 Heavenly Brother 
To Do (pu). 20 PriorsCopptae (5th}, The 
TtoiMwWPuL 33Dumfries. Fourth Proto- 

Upper Lamboum. Tow S217. 60- L £2 3 ; M. 
hM £150. DF (wfrmer or second wOt 
SfSrS): £25ateF: £22726. 


isrSws 

G& nlSSiSp^PWnart.^^ 

SSjerTnraHucWetJuclt. YounoFarmer. 
£7657. 

PtacapoC £187.70 

Carlisle 

OOok good (good to aolt In ptacm) 

• ^.J-a^CmjrWverPS**® 


Muck Or Money, Carry The Can, Tina's 
Hideaway, 50 Akkaw Rutter tori. 
Qseamee. Ancient Cross. AprTB Baby. 21 
ran. 31.2141.2KL 2KL 2ML J Edwards at 
RoafrGn-Wye. TatK E5.70; tZSQ. S2M. 
£11JX). OP. £1020. CSK £3125. 

3.15 (2m ch) 1. HOTPLATE (P Mven. 6- 
it 2. Tacttco (M Dwyer. 11-4 JMav): 3. 
l*arrfo(B S&m. 11-4M««AALSO RAIt 
4 The VVokrfr (4th). t>-2 StwfastJc. IS 
Doronicum (BtW, 25 Furtana wonder (5th). 
33 Gay's DeSflm (duL Skhric (ur). 9 ran. 
NR: Lord Laney. 2KL 8L 5L 5L 15L D 
McCain at BwrfgKW. Tow: E4J0-. E1.T0. 
£2 .1 a £120. DF: £1 
Tricast £4923. 

J MH4 1. SMTINOfOAN 
. 2, Brompton Road (C 

___ j 3, Maroi&mi(M Aiaton. 

11-2L ALSO RAN: B Home To ROOSL15-2 
Stxxm Wind (4th). 9 Bonnie Dundee (Stfi). 
14 Tetomatar Gem (SttiL 20 Hytog Data 
(put. Traumatic Leva. 25 Ice Vatay. 68 
Jwrttco Lea. 11 ran. Sh hd. 1KJ. 8L THL 
12L Mrs 0 Rewiay at Maiton. Tote: £430; 
£120. £120. £240. DP. £1220. CSF: 
£17.79. THcasfc EB5JB2. 

PtacapoC £9720. ■ 

Ungfield Park 

Oota standard 

Tie (6f) 1. Autofcifd (R Morse. 7-4); 2. 
Wolf (11-8 tovfc S. Grand ftmr(l8-1X7 
ran. 5L rid. C Alan. Tote: £250; £1.70, 
£12a DF: £122 CSF: £421. 

Ouina 13-8 
Choice 
H 


£11 Ja CSF: £21.18. 


I nm 2f) 1, Bffoeaf (T Ouina IS 
B?iJfrwr (12-1); 3, Hunza’s Choi 
(S-ij. 6 ran. Nft Head Groom. 2L 6L-. 
XkehursL Tote: £240; £1.30. £1-00. DP 
£6.10. CSF: E16B4. 



^i^ T s 089S-1 

§ 

68" 

vhe an 
dTrll 

.. * 

168' 

iTTT| 

y 


AIM 

larfBW 

SenttneV 

Hiupy Vrftoy 
hphp 

1 /W/MV HILL'^ 

1 

;eds, 

1 6LB 

M. 



140 i 


E3.40. E3.7D. DF: t7?.2Q. (XF: £28.19 

^sjr’iWftausgR.s 

£490. (5=: £10.10. CSF: £ 25.0 2 . 

(1m) 1. AFTtarhman (T WMams. 6- 
Vrtent Red (iM favt a, My 
nd_RtoO 


Trtstram'B Utow™ 

T"cast 

Sfm. Bought mvoogw. 

t 7jr on ch) 1. REIVER'S LAD (B 
_ Z - 16 9 Master vugm r 

Sutesgi^SSs 

safj 

Cottage ii mt Ksron. 14 


£318-59. 

PtacapoC £20250. 

Rider’s operation 

Robert Strickland yesterday un¬ 
derwent an operation on inter¬ 
nal injuries received in a fail at 
tbe Old Raby Hunt Chib point- 
to-point on Saturday (Brian Beel 
writes). The 27-year-old rider, 
who also tanke bis /aw, was 
riding in his first race. 


ASCOT 


Selections 

By Mandarin 


,BWaet(7) Si 


1.30 Atiaal. 

ZOO Another Coral. 

Z30 Mrs Muck. 


3.05 Desert Orchid. 
3J5Carrick Hill Lad. 
4.05 Strong Gold. 


By Michael Seely 

Z30 MRS MUCK (nap). 3.05 Ballyhane. 4 5 Popeswood. 

The Times Private Handicapper’s top rating; 3J5 CELTIC SHOT. 


Going: good to soft 

1 J30 A F BUDGE NOVICES HURDLE (£9,240:2m) (10 runners) 

4-21121 ATLAAL It (CLF.G) (O Dormofly) J JcnUns 5-12-0 


101 

102 

103 

104 

105 

106 

107 

108 

109 

110 


10-1211 MAH OF TIC WEST 32 (DA8) (A FBudga(EQukte) Ltd) Jimmy RtqgaraM 7-124) MDayar 

00-113 TBBIYIAND 32 (OJF/J9 (M BucMay) N Handaraon 6-12-0- 

MtHha R1VERMEAD IB (tLS){WtVto Hcxsa Bac*nj LW) DBswDrm6-11-8 
• BOOK OF aOU>2S(HJo*)JGW0'e 5-11-4 


COUNT ate our 11F (Mrs K srwaai) R Hoad 5-11-4. 
23-2 DARK HONEY 18 (R Ssyer)SDmv5-1t-4. 


LAFCRRE UBF (Mrs J Khart C Brieain 5-11-4. 
PftOVMO (R act) J Gtffort 8-11-4. 


2 WHATEVenrau LIKE 25(AEtmrai)NHanCMnan 6-11 



. ROmnady W 


_. BE1 W Ui.HMMl. 1DCF30 TTnrytsnd. 9-2 RlvertyMUl. 8-1 WltuMuir You Lira, 18-2 Lsptarra. 8-1 Man Of 
Urn mat iZ“1 Others. 

19M MOMJEY STRDET 6-12-2 J Frost (5-6 fav) G Baidng 7 ran 

FORM FOCUS AnAAt • 


Mhan osUng up to bMt baric a head: wrier _ 
uM die tan whan 812nU id Foraat Sun at Sandown 
pn. good) wtti TBMYLAND Ob bettor oh) a neck 
behind H 3nd MAN OF THE WEST lata pained aB 
three vrina tftri term at Marfrat Hasan; taastOm, 
oood to soft) won easfly by 71 from Purpte SBc. 
RtVERHEAO kept on to bs 212nd of 17 to Sudden 


Victory at Kempton (2m. goocq pair 29 dear. PARK 
HONEY was a ana^pocaa8i2nd of 25 to LNsahana 

Leas at Lakraa t ir (2m. good to soft). LAPERRE, a 

mup l wfrsiar on dm Rat. Hshed OKI 3rd of 7 to 
Drum Tm»a at Mawraitie pm 2f 4Oy<0 to October on 

Ms bnaot start. Has luripad woe over hunSea « 

home. WHATEVER Y6u LIKE stayed on wei in ms 

.— whan IKi 2nd of 9 to Egypt MR over 

-a»—- —— a——-^i *«—■ ——■—» 

ooRviCB tgooa »tent/. 

BatoCdOB! ATLAAL 


2j0 DANIEL HOMES NOVICES CHASE (Listed race: £11^74:2m) (7 runners) 

201 234-112 ANOTHER CORAL 18 (OJFA8HM Daetoy) D Mchotacn 7-120_Rl 

333212 BEAU QUEST 25 £LF,0) (W 8«aora) J Parttee 8-11-4_H Dwyer 


202 


203 42M81 RIEQOBOY 18(OA8)(ADartagton)AJWIson 10-11-4. 

204 S03FFP- LIMLEY LAKE 309(H Hsaktna) J Gdlord7-114. 


205 *43-128 WESTERN DANDY 38 1PJFJS} (Mrs 0 ReteheQ N OnilH 7-11-4. 


208 WWrt QU LLIVER 39 ptr.8) (Mrs T Martarty) D Bawcrdi H14 

207 F12221 SETTER COUNTRY 12 (D//* (D Barter) R Hodpas 8-10-13— 


B1 

— Rl 

-BPowal 

_R< 


77 


SI 


Ano ?*L CoraJ ' ™ VWnk S- 1 Guest 7-1 Wealani Dandy, 10-1 Fuago Boy, 

Setter Cowry, 12-1 Lumtoy Lake. 

198to SABM DU LOm 10-124) P Scudamore (1-2 fn) M Pipe 5 ran 


Haydock (2m. sort WNC GULUVCR made a had 
mMafca ai the Mat out ran on again to be 13KI48) of 
0 to DeckJad at Newtairy (2m 180yd. good) wMt 
FUEQO B OY (54> worse off) Hi any Sf5n> and 
WESTER N DAH PT (same terms) a behind »a rival 
in 6th. SETTER COUNTRY got up to beat Soulful 
Strut a neck In a Hankat Hrtsh at Wtocanton pm. 
good). 

ANOneR CORAL (asp) 


FORM FOCUS “5™S. b «SS 

dia Wfrmera turn rt foot whan 312nd to Decided at 
Kempton (2m, good); eertor driven dew to beat 
Bfaat 41 atOwkenham (2m. good to Arm). 

BEAU raJEST. has proved con sist ew In novice 

the useful BtazJng U^&r at Newcastle (2m. goodL 
FUEQO BOV was left dear to beat Rain MaricBOl at 

2-30 DAILY TELEGRAPH HURDLE (Listed race: £12£37: 3m) (11 
runners) 

301 133514- MRSfER0279(CfWFJ5)(RYtoaa)RLM9-11-S_ 

302 2051-21 SBI8MUCK IS(CDJLS)(NTwtaton-Oevtes)NTwwnn-Davtes9-11-5_PI 

303 30-3311 BRABAZONT8(D3)(PHBeOS(Hoidkigs)Lid)MTompMna5-11 h 

304 112-311 CALABRESE SB <CO^AS){5frs A Fagan) « Henderson 5-11-0 - ROunwoody 

305 P00S1-2 OLENOAK 18(CL8)(Mrs DPayne) J Roberts5-11-0_Mrailpkm(3) 

305 P0B-431 MINERAL DUST 19 (DXtS) (M Groom) Mrs G Jones 7-11-0_J Bryan 

307 112/035 PRAQADASB(04)(MrsMMoGtane)JGNtord7-11-0_ Rl 

306 23-1F22 RVDE AGAM 2S (FJQ (Mm K Hayward) P CUratt 7-11-0 


B Doaritog 88 



1434HP SANTEUA BOBXES 53 (BAS) (R Tabm^ Q Harwood 5-11-0 

310 14/9-436 STERNE 15 tpjOfii (P Harman) Mss E Sneyd 8-11-0 

311 322/OP T80B.YSTAR28(B)(BSmith)MrsJPkman9-11-0- 
BETTING: 7-4 Mrs Muck, 11-4 Ryda Again, 7-2 Calabrese, 10-1 Santrita Bobkas, V4-1 Pragada, 

16-1 Msa Nora. Tknrfy Star. 20-1 Efrebazon. others. 

1989: CNLAPAEZ 5-11-13 S Sherwood (B5) Mbs B Sandora 6 ran 

FORM FOCUS £ 


NERO, a 
stare stayer, 
latest success when staying on waO under 
2-00 to beat L are hmont 9 at Bangor (3m. aofQ. 
MUCK scored fritpressfaoiy af^ Ttajiocfc (3m. 
■ofl) whan draatag dear to bertTrapper John i2L 
BRABAZON races a stMer task man whan staying 
on to defeat invasion 21 at Lalcesur (3m, good to 
■Oft). CALABRESE qufckanad 3 out but had to be 


driven on toe rutvfri to beet RVDE AGAM (1*2) 
bettor oft) 31 over course and Ostanoe (good) w*h 
STERNEJSb worse oft) IQ away In Srdfeerfler 
CALABRESE earib beat Meziara ifi at ChMtwYwm 
(3m. good to fimtiMOi PRAGADA (T48) batter off) a 
dstant 5th. SANmiA 80BKES, below form last 
dmo, but stayed on to win at Wohmrt wmp ton (ton Of 
110yd, good) tn October baattrig Combennare 6L 
SatocttaR MRS MUCK 


15 CHARTERHOUSE MERCANTILE HANDICAP CHASE (Listed race: 
£25,812: In) (8 runners) 

401 11F-121 DESERT ORCHD 43 (CAFJLS) (R Burridg^ D Bsworth 11-12-0 

402 1242-54 RU8CHDEFAROES 18(S)(FFanant)MPipe7-KW 

403 B1-2S32 BALLYHANE28fCOFAS)(HJoel)J Gdlord9-1CW). 

404 12182-1 PADDYBORO 38 (FJXS) (Capl F TyrwftHJ-Oraka) J QHtOitJ 12-100 

405 

406 

407 

408 


£4321/1 TEN OF SPADES 25 (CJFA8) (W WhNbraad) F Wrfwyn 10-104) 

11-1121 MAN CMAGIC11 (BAUFAtR p Grslg) K Batay 9-104)- 

313301- CASTLE WARDEN 277 (CtLFAS)(M Shone) J Edwards 13-104) 



1U-4214 COOL GROUND IBPLHFA^OMWBOtnbe M anor Raring LM)NMtahaB8-10-0 ATnqrW 
Long Itendtoap: Paddyboro 9-10. Tan Of Spades 9-8. Man (TMaglc 95, Castta Warden 92. Cool 
Ground 8-13. 

BEXfllKfc 8-4 Desert Orchid, 3-1 Daiyhanoi 6-1 Man aMa^c, 13-2 Tan Of Spartoe. 8-1 Ruacft Da 
Fargee. 14-1 Paddyboro. 25-1 rthare. 

1998: PROUD PttGRH 10-108 M Dwytv (8-1) JkBDqr RtogsraU 10 nn 


FORM FOCUS S^gam^S 

htonsstr the best chaser ki the country whan 
comf o rtably baaifrtgatabla m a to Bambroolc Again by 
71 In the King George at Kempton (3m, good) btaiL 
Has raponidly recovered wad from Me bout of 
eoughfrig. 

RUSCH DE FAROES progressed Into ■ useful 
chaser last term but has {taappototad this torm; 
latest 9X14th to Mck The Brief at Haydock (3m, 
soft). 

BALLYHANE stayed on to Iktah 712nd to ZtAo pec 
25to) over itw couree and dtotonoa (good). 
PADDYBORO made a successful a e aa onal re¬ 


appearance whan beating Privets Views 1*1 at 
Cheltenham {2m 4Q. 

TEN OF SPADES overcame a 20 month abesnee to 
beat The Dragon Master by IK! at Ascot (2m 4f, 
good to sortTilAN 0*MAGtc reoalned vHnnlng form 
aftor a hlgnN cradttaota 121 Midto Totar Tovaa at 
Wtocanton (2m 51. good) when betting Ftombig 51 at 
Doncastar 0m 122yd. good). 1 

castle WARDEN beat TonUa by • length at 
Warwick Om if. good to tom) on his tnal start Hat 
season. COOL GROUND is best judged ona betOng 
neck defeat of Mck The Brtat (wtorwr nest time) at 
Sandown (3m SflByd. good) on penuMrma start. 

0 ejection: DESERT 0RCI8P_ 


Guide to oar in-line racecard 

1 1t3M3 OOODT)MES13(*F^AKl(Mr»pnobtoWf0BHNI19O_ 

Racecard number. Sbc-flgure form (F — fan. distance winner. GF — batten favourite In 
P—putad up. U-unaeKed ridar. B-brought bdast race). Going on which horse has won 
down. S - slipped up. R — refused. (F — firm, good to Hnn, herd. G - good. 
D - disqualified). Horae's name. Days S - soft, ewod to soft, heavy). Owner in 
since last outing; F if flat. (B — bHnkwm. orach—. Trainer. Age end wei gh t Rider 
V—visor. H-hood. E- C ynM ei d. C-co—e pro* any aHowanee. The Time* Private 
P — d man c i winner. CD —exturae anu t ton tS ca p pa r ei ai tog. 


. PDever 71 
NDeugMy 83 



71 


335 OLD ROAD SECURITIES REYNOLDSTOWN NOVICES CHASE 
(Feature race: £1&230:3m) (7 runners) 

501 348-081 BUCKSHEE BOY 3* (CL8) (J PflUncfon) J POdngtcn 8-11-12. 

502 1-11111 CAfdKX MU. LAD Tl (03) (A Picfcen) Q 01—7-11-12. 

603 341112 CELTIC 8HOTT1 (BFA9 P Horton) C Brooke 8-1M2 _ 

504 101P-12 DGEP COLONIST S3 (DtBF,to(Q AdCOCk) JBMoro 8-11-8._ 

505 315-111 ROYAL ATHLETE 20 (CAOq (a Joftnearf Mrs J PKman 7-11-8 

SOS partes MIXES blends aa (BP,SJ p Spearmen) m Monte (kto *-ii-7_ 

6/ e-«2tt LACTHOUSEZQ«ELFAto(MreM^saon)MreMEaton7-11-3_.Dl__ 

8EITMQ: 5-4 CaBIc Shaft, 5« Carrick HR Lad. 6-1 Royal Adttto, 17-2 Deep Ooioitat M-1 Lest Huue* 
B ckehee Boy. 15-1 Mbced BtondtL ^ «.re»e^ 

1889: VUtGANWARWOR 7-11-8 JOebonw (3-1) SChritSan 6 rw 

C h atton h am (ton rt.ggorg. The c l e a r f orm asHc U on 

but mere are don— about hto —fcy 10 stay Ms Mm 

DEB> COLONIST was bMM 151 by tS 
Proctanwfrgn over Zm4t (good to eoW here. ROYAL 
ATHLETE accounted tor EKSr HOUSE (a to ne tontito 

by Bt m Newton Abbot (3m a 100yd. h^y)w3 

ahoum contain me ptaem ge today, —xep blemdb, 
formriy a amen hurdtor. fMahed lot 3rd of 4 to 
RMS's Rher at Punchaauem (ta 4L heavy). 
CELTIC SHOT 


FORM FOCUS "* 

chasing debut whan be atin g C 
Mto) by 21 at Nowtaury (2m Bfc 
CANUCK MLL LAD, free bean very impressive In 
Ms five victories iMb season, beat Atoon Express 81 
at Ayr (2m 4f, heavy). 

CELTIC SHOT, the 1988 Champian huTOtor, he* 
wel to fancee and tpet naming 


to 


2nd to Stain Du 


AJS lOLFANE CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS HANDICAP HURDLE (£5£5& 2m 4f) 
runners) 

801 OQO01P FLEET COHMMIPtn 18 (FA) (M Meade) M Meade 7-11-10 

602 14SP-10 AU8THORPE SUNSET If (DJFA8) (A VMkei) Mrs R Wharton 6-11-0 

603 POSCO-1 TRUST THE WflH 80 (Ql« (A OarrtnanHtoR Holder 9-11-9 

804 020-124 STRONG GOLD 18 PLBFJP^ (Mrs SRoblnM Mrs J PBman 7-11-7. 

805 182-482 SWEET CITY 43 (8) (O Lfrte) B RtChardS 5-1V4 
606 211P4Q C&.T1CBARLE 39 PMB (Mrs I hodg^H Hodge 6-11-3 
007 n-MSM WHimBta-nDER 18 (Q^(HD»ietoDBivctieS 5-11-2 
608 381-POO BON NE ARRE13 P3) ( M M JOtoeanlOOTtoR 9-1VI 

321-fiOS BHWKE8TO WNLAPllff^gLee)MBredSWCh5-11-1 


(22 


610 

811 

812 

613 


2030 FATHER TMEH(DB) (Mrs A HoaeeqMTOBtoMns 5-19-0 
333-001 miSnCCOMBTY 37 PUHWMe Horse RactogLfrSD Bsworth 5-10-13 
080083 LITTLE TORO B fDJM (J Blahop) G ElahSng 8-10-' 



.3 Rotor 


0-04001 0008 FOX •(Db03)(WNtcombe Manor Racing Ud)N MBetwB 840-13 (Sea)_ATbry 

814 S1PW-0 POPESWOOD S3 AM MBhtoe) W MgMmsa 7-10-12- 

0-75322 WWPmM07pChS—nQPMtah—0-104 ... PI 


015 
616 
517 
818 
0)9 05/PP-0D 


VPOF04 BASKET WEAVE 28 (DJFA8) (J StVWR Q Bafetag 9-W-1 
82-4281 CARFAX 33 (8) (PHo^tfR Hoed 5-HH). 


1405-00 FBOLALMA 19(PJ^fMrsPtuice)PMMhei7-100- 



620 BtOOSQ. JAVBX8 OREAM 277 (Q) (Beaco n rtl etd Onvctopraena) P Heywenl 3-10-0 A 

821 2B228F POONA EXPRESS 49 OMKARMOvO A WdCUt O-IOQ- 

822 240WOS DABK SOtONA 1S (Mn Cero^fn A B AAecpp) D ArtouaMOt 7-NM)_D Q—rel 

^ Umg tondfc^Certax 9-13. Ftoal AJraa 9-11, HJVStreel-akaes 9-10, Jayeta Dream M, Poona 

12-1 Carfax, 


BETTHKE VI Rustic Oomady, 5-1 Strata Goto. 7-1 Gods Fox. 9-1 Sweat 
Wsave. Trust The Irish. 1V1 Father Tima, unto Toro. 16-1 Auatoorpa SunseL ~ 

1989: SADDLERS MQHT J Leech 7-1M7 (11-0) Mrs J Ptonan 16 ran 


let Cfty. 1! _ 

Mwrftto, 25-1 others. 


FORM FOCUS as_ 

predtotabfy outetossad whan puSed up behind Mm 
Muck; prmiously beat Brigand Gfrl 1M at Haydock 
(3m. son) Where BONNE AMHE finished 2917th. 
TRUST TIC HUSH has not bean out akin boating 
MBtwy Bend 21 at Wtocanton Cm Of. good) In 
November where BASKET WEAVE m> 83 puled up. 
STRONG GOLD ona-peced 01 4th to Oannaae at 
Warwick (2m 5L good to aof0 wlto WHISTLING 

-& better oft) 19 7th and BOWK ARME 

19th of 29 l SWEET CITY is rumtog into 


UK 


tom and finlshad a neck 2nd to 
Wathatby (2m, good to aofQ. 

FATHER THE. from a stable in axceSart farm. 

Snfshed 413rd to Black Moccasin at Doncaster (2m 

4f. good): previously won over trfa trip m Merknt 

Raeart (2m 4L good to soft). QOOS FOKbaai Lobrfc 
by 41 xt Phantan ran 4L soft) where UTT1JE TORO 
better oft) tfrtahad « 3rd end NLL-STREET- 

BUUE8 2S 7th. BASKET WEAVE wee amporaxt in 

the market when IS 4th to James My Boy at 
Warwick (2m 5L good to artQ tatau. 


Course specialists 


Peter Hobbs 

JOCKEYS 

Whvxm 

ID 

Rfcfes 

41 

Pareant 

34A 

M Dwyer 

7 

30 

213 

MPWTBtt 

B 

Z7 

909 

K Mooney 

11 

54 

204 

PScudamora 

20 

139 

16.7 

R Rowe 

14 

108 

1SJ) 


R Lea 

MPtoe 

QRfc luu d s 


TRAINERS 

Winner* Rumen Par cent 
3 a 37.5 

6 22 27.3 

5 19 253 

3 13 23.1 

12 54 222 

3 14 21-4 


Rogers Princess back to form 


R og n s Princess, the winner of the Coral 
Golden Final at Chdtenhai last jw, 
put herself back into the festival picture 
with a comfortable s ucces s in the 
Regency Hurdle at Warwick yesterday. 

Sham Keightley produced the eig&& 
year-old mare to lead bum Military 
Band at the last, and she 7-2 shot polled 
away to win by 1% lengths. Kidder¬ 
minster tr ainer Martin Tate wfll give 
Regers Princess one more race before 
considering her Cheltenham options. 

Pfertemps Network, the 11-4 w 
favourite, dropped out of contention at 
h&lfWay, finishing last of the Bre, beaten 
more than 60 lengths and prompting a 
stewards* inquiry. 

Pieter Scadanwre arid Ms woa nt wa> 
already wefl beaten when m a kin g a 
mistake on the for ride and he felt there 
mast be something wrong. Chester 
Barnes, representing trainer Martin 
Pipe, said Pertemps Network had been 
working well and veterinary examina¬ 
tions revealed nothing stale s. The 


explanations were anted and the stew- 
sris ordered Pertemps Network to be 
rostiae tested. 

Playschool took another tentative step 
on the comeback trail in the George 
Coney Challenge Cap, patting ap* tab! 
show for a long way. He was a dose 
second to long-time leader Roll-A-Jotot, 
the 100-30 favourite, mitfl he tired badly 
after three mfies and was polled up by 
Graham McCoart. 

Trainer David Barons expressed Mat , 
self disappointed with the 12-year-old, 
who holds entries for the Chdtenham 
Gold Cup and the Grand NatiooaL 
“Graham felt he wasn't as ready as we 
thought be was," Barons said. ‘Tie’s 
ceitody had a let of work. If it's n 
recurrence of sore skins we have got a 
problem.” 

The chaUfugr to RoBrA-Joint was 
then taken up by Woodgate (7-2), who 
gained the upper hand rounding the ftoal 
tara to score by five lengths. 


LUDLOW 


Selections 

By Mandarin 


1j 45 Iveagh House. 

2.15 Mandraki Shuffle. 

Z45 Dtaphantine. 

Brian Bed’s selection: 3.15 Water WagiaiL 


3.15 Water WagtaiL 

3.45 Harry Lime. 

4.15 FORMULA ONE (nap). 

4.45 Tribal Ruler. 


Going: good 

1.45 BULL RING NOVICES HURDLE (4-Y-O: £1^60:2m) (16 runnere) 


0 CHQJHKMTHRABS142(RGtaMJSpeering11-() 


PB8 QO MOrtJEY If (Mrs E Ogdon WttBsa) T tfromaoo Jones 11-0--— 

8 MOWSYSt FATHB1 KB (Unity Farm HofcJay Centra) J McOonnodiia 11-9— 

0 IO«WHmt21(VlraWWgBto)EOw«tll-0--8 

24 IVEAGH HOUSE 42 (Mra S Robfrto Mrt J PRmm 11-0 
LONB1A 200F (J Davis) J Bxkar 11-0 


More CHORKTER (C Fowta) D EtoRXtt 1M. 
MY TATA (A Mortsy Robson) B PMtag 1M 


NOnAOE 236F (Plpx Scudamore Racing Pie) M Pipe 11-0. 
SHARP CHARIER 148F (A BwxMO) K WNto 11-0— 

245 80LDH9I BRAVE 103 (MreERolto) RMamtoglVO- 


MBeatoy #99 

« — 
E Byrne — 

Cl 

ill 


P) 


Mr D McCain (7) — 

_aKrftftf 98 


1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 
7 
B 
B 

10 

12 B£^~C&rnE(WBeemjy (Brttm) Lid) D McCrfn KM 

13 355822 KOWZAt2(VGuy)MraAKnlgM 100- 

14 F LEMON BALM 15 (PwOynBrtarfaflBjJMcConnocbtoHW 

15 PHOBJEME*YU.109FpPartWJ JParttt 10-9- 

18 00 WELSHC0LIHN2S(GHcbarttotoimmaRMtanto 109- *Ksk — 

BETTING: Ewns Nonage, 3-1 Magfl Home, 8-1 Kovoa. 8*1 Go Notatoy, 12-1 Mo a Choriator, 14-1 
others. 

1888! TREMMM 4-1M G Morgm (16-1) R Manntog 18 ran 

2.15 BUTTS NOVICES HANDICAP CHASE (£3,194:3m) (16 runners) 

310334 DIANESDESTBiV 7 (0)(MnDUpaon)JUpaon8-11-10-QBtaaMg) 84 

B432FU ROYAL BATTERY 12 (MS PCuOND Banna 7-11-9 --RGrmxra(7) 8* 

02-4422 MANDRAKI SHUFFLE 7 (B) (Mr* J Dtobon) O Bhwwood 8-11-6-JOtaanw •» 

3334-UF MT UPHAM *7(R BrirfnMrttt) D GandaSo8-11-5—-Wl 

OPO-312 CB-TtC WALK 15 (tp (Mra A Wncxg T Forator H W .. . 


23-2S2F PMMOBCE LODGE 37 (BASHCBW H) FWahryn 8-11-3 
4833-80 PLAGUED*RATS30(t*sCRagon)RFtot6-11-2 

38 COPPETT SONG 22 (FVMma) G Price 8-11-1-- 

4-P2S3F R0NAN8 BStTHDAY 28 (Bravnar Fabrtotaana) Mra S Otonr 8-1V0 
425430 WHAT A WALLY M (R Fatoni) M Ofiwr 8-1^0 — 
- 7 (Oj jO Coomba) D Barona B-10-13 


1 

2 

3 

4 

5 
8 

7 

8 

9 

10 

12 toF-UIP TEPVION4I(OLR'fttMoorcrofi) J PeastU TI-MFIO- 

13 8FP PRIZE COMMAND 12 (U Col J Cunta) N Gaaaln 13-10-10 

14 14-PF4P FRENCH HABITAT 12 p)(Mre J Arttxx) P Devts 3-103— 

15 346-FC 8P0RT5NEW8 29 (to (Aba J DabMiara) P Hobba 8-1M 

16 ZUOIVF RONDEAU 22 (P.8) (KannM Racing Ltd) P JonM 7-10-8- 

BETTMCb 5-2 Mandraki Ehuftto, 7-2 Gallic Witt, 9-2 Pirovktoncx Lodga, 8-1 Royto Bettary, 8-1 Ftonans 

BfrtMay. 10-1 DtanM Orettiy-18-1 otoare. 

1088: PLEATED 7-W7 S Smith Ecdw (8-1) J King 15 tan 

245 tEENTON SELLWG HANDICAP HURDLE (£2,010:2m) (20 runners) 



0QN3 FOX PATH 14 (8) DiBF (Mis J Lmta) F Jbnton 6-12-0 
BBM2 MONfUT* 8 (8) (V ABF (E Sm«*) C Brfi 8-1V11, 


1 

3 40380* M^ilotaFgtoAtols'^cpaOD'»■«**■ 7-11-10. 

4 50(1230- MARSOOM 250 (D#)(M Braun) M Brown 8-1MI-— 

5 flOta DacOY 14 mriPtoyrf-Btoe Raring Pic) B S frwa na 5-11-5. 

6 082 TOP80B.22(DBF«(MraA8tooey)DWhtoB-11-5- 

7 02W3 SUNSET 8AH 23 (S)(E Jones) RCalow 8-11-3- 

B 3WS0-F MORE HAL 183 (BJXF) y HaRRBrottwnon 5-11-3- 

9 820-050 LEGAL GOBI 21 [S M oa atoy) K Wtoa 6-M-O--- 

10 OIMSOOO RAVaSTON 20 (Mra M Bowilan) J HOfwybta 7-HM2.- 

11 004282 BfPtAH B1HEAM 37 (G Mcut) J Bradtoy 8-10-11- 


_ SI 

_ J Brown (7) B 89 
M Store-* (7) 05 

_A Canal 91 

_SEarfa 85 

_RBoogan 84 


11 on-asr j iui*—i -urn ■ —. . . . . »— 

12 00/0006 WPSOMQ DANCER 40 (ft5) (Lady H S -Worttoyf turf) taaa L Bower 7-109 Bl>a8g»e w (7) 92 

13 OOOOU UTTIE MAM to (tosFLtaMR ROM 0-10-7- JRw* — 

14 POOP- BaLMOHMAL288(0Hutton)MraJEvxna5-10-7 --- - - PHxrfaytii — 

15 P/044MF WHOEVBI IS toHCFBt4)JDavto> 8-10B - — 98 

18 30*2420 P0LfiCR0FT43(t>A (Mra DDwiM}M Darias7-100- - - 94 

17 DREAMtNQSTAR 8 (J Mtoa*) P Andareon 5-10-S ■ - PVoritogW 18 

18 00-3806 GOLFER'S SUMBSE 21 (RTayktiKUMto 5-104.-AORRH 94 


3J5 ASHFORD CARBONELL HUNTERS CHASE (Amattws: S2JB92: 3m) (10 runnel^ 

1 82Pf21- BROOKStoEKMG317(DJR(HHut«by)HHutaby 10-120- CFtonlti) 83 

2 2IUB5-4 CW P PCP METAL 132 (CtLFAto(Sir JoftnBnrto-0Sir JBartau 11-12-0—^ PBwtow (7) WSO 

3 O02F2/F- DALTMORE 260 (CM I AS) OB JankRWJanks 12-12-0- TJm8cx(7) 82 

4 «f/ DAWN 8raEET1770(BABFX9(lfrsJ Cooped to# JCOopw 12-120 MtoJUHtoo (7) — 

5 50U053- HANNA RES’283 (FAN (BUraglan)BLNMtiian 12-120-lta n a pt i n (7) 78 

6 834-PANTOUR 430 Mm PMdtonl Mra PMiSton 10-120-— — 

7 8P2B4Pt aUCKHOP342nFAPCDlMJCOMBIV124-— — 

8 3F3T1/ RUN LEAH HUM 984 QUASI (J MBaud) JR W8aon11-12-0_ 


9 221234- UNSCRUPULOUS GBfT 28S ff) (D Yaoratoy) J MxcfciS 8-120 — 
10 2UT243- WATER WAOTAB. 280 PAMtoMreRW A Stoptomun 9-120. 


. JR W9mw( 7) — 
O Y — a to y fl) 7B 


BETT«a 11-10 CfatopudMMsL 4-1 WtorW8flf,0-1 UnacrepukxtoGnrt, Quick Trip. B-1 MnaRat 
10-1 Brookskto Ktog,12-1Dawn Street 14-1 rtf**- 

1888: NO OORREaPOWRNa RACE 


3jI 5 MA ROI H OOK NOVICES HURDLE (£2,178:2m) (18 runnere) 

1 16 AKDAMT(DA(MraS^HougbtoiOnjobananHoughton5-114 IlfQ 

2 MFO-1 HARRY UME15 (08) (BNuwtnnJMPtp-5-11-8- 

3 303441 NATHAN BLAKE 21 OkCaAfMraJCmtMtoKBtaoy 5*114 

4 0 CALAHOMDA BAY 14 (D McOurts) A Janwa 5-11-0 


CHAM SHOT 42F(H McEwan) K Whlto 5-114- 

COLONEL OKBXY (Mra J Fatoo) 0 Baron* 8-11-0 
6 CREAM AND ORffil 21 (Andax Lid) KWttaB-114 


DWADME182F (Olympk: Rxotog) O Sbwwood 5414 
1214 FDR HEAVENS BAKE 187 (BF/JGKK BSQ C BHto 5-114L 
08 MOON RIM 14 (MtoaCtaxgWG Ham 7-1 TO¬ 
SS NO BONUS 21 (J OTtoK) D Munay Staitti 8-1 VO 

64 RBOLEMHrOO 88 (0 Q*n»B) J Corfxxi 5-tlO- 

SHU FLY (Strem Rrtt PtotnsnhW Mra 3 Otar 5*114 

TK tone (Mra PUntocNgw Prim 7-114- 

2 WESTERN GUM M(C«Vtalar BQS Ctototan 5*114 
BLACK ROCK (J Owon} E Owen 5-toft 

OPALKMO 2t2F (Mra M L**fl*)A Joow- 

F 6HY ASSTWaS to (N Couto o n C tore n*) a Ham 7-100 



BETTMQ: 74 Horn Line, 3-1 Waofrwn Gun, 11*2 Akdnm, 6*1 Pwwd nra , Naftxn Btana. B-l No Bontm. 
HM For Homan's Sake. 12-1 atom. 

1888: AHBAHREE 6-104 G Brattoy (10-1) O Murray Smkfi) IB n» 

4,15 TENBUHY NOVICES CHASE (E2£6& 2m 4Qfl 6 nsinera) 


m » 


Mr D McCain (7) — 

- Wl 


SEarfa — 


W How — 



1 MpreMf BaJmOOK3BtSHEJon*iQHtm8-U-7- - 

2 342/n-f FORMULA ORE «f8)pOBVtaa)Je0wtodi B-114- 

3 OQeaGfF GOLDEN CROFT IB (8) 04 Juaip) D MeCtal 7-11-7- 

4 P000&8 OOOOWVMSUmi8fto(MreMOantatoABarroai8-1T-7- 

5 808f(M» MASTBt GLEASON 84 (B Klptorick) D Maray SnWtt 7-11-7- 

8 0WFS3 MBMQNTRUN34(0)(ABrawurLkQRDfcMn 11-11-7- 

7 MP IMU. R&JC 37 (J Eaton) J Eaton 7-1V7-- 

8. 84* MONASTIC CALM 22 p* Orta) P Dtorta 8-11-7--—--- 

9 BOD MOUNTMTMCK3D(AiNtoDuetoMOfWBSta*Mto)TFtnHr6*114-C 

10 530WO- 8ALC0M8E474(1*8BQttlda)OBaron*8-11-7--- 

11 W7P4P4 TOASTBB21 (Q)(h8a»JHOfWOOd)Mtoa JH0IW00d9-11*7. 

12 44S385 8«OMI18n(KFtoerei)MI=tonda6-114--- 

13 001430 HBLLO STEVE If gLHFA (J JoaaptO C Broolto B-10-12- 

14 0-P0E42 JUST PERHN8 21 (J Quthri^ P AiKtoracn 5-10-12- 

15 I8440B TARA BOY 28 pPtekarinrtRFranttS fi-W-12- = - 

16 000-304 LOVE ON THE ROCKS 8 (H AtftkxU) P &aaa 5-10-7- 

BETTMQ: 7-4 Fonrata Ofto. 3-1 BRxuofr. 5-1 GoodwyM Lad, 6-t Mtao Stow, 8-1 Safoomba. »*1 

Gokton Craft, 12-1 Ottawa. 

1988: DSIOCRATC ROY 7-114 S Smta Eectot (84 ttv) J Ktog 9 ran 

445 LADBROKE RACING HANDICAP HURDLE (£2^10:2m 5Q (20 rurmef^ 

1 fres mi BOO TM (BJ3jgg Moreom S ra)Q -*» 

3 

4 

G 

8 

7 

8 
9 

10 
11 
12 
IS 
14 


143118/ FLEUHCONE22F(CO^^U)(Exoraot RWyraQKWhan8-11-rt. ■■ RBaggaw — 


XOf» vatOFCSTA IS OBWjSWpto B Paridnto R PWktoa 11-1K12 

832821 T1«BAL f&XER 22 (1 (J ataglaklll) D ItoCrfn J-1M1- 

matu JUST R03E 308 (CtLS)(MraDJenl<*)MPfr» 8-114- 

316PW LAPIAFFE 28 fC!LF«PAIItii9RHodga» 8-114- 

(05328- RMTLBIO412(8)(CLswtojDBarona7-114-—- 

81* 4833 CONCSTT PAPB122 (S HwraoontJ) l«*S 8 WMon 8-11-2- 


FS-F813 COM VANMCH12 (Q® (Mra J Gaorga) P MQbb* B-1V1 

3008/2- MrftAMAC 2B3F (CAS) (H FfO«) R FKWt 9-11-1-- 

U4/BPP FOURTH 1UOOR 42(BtFAtopBrareMnJAJOfraaB-IWl 

35P220 POP BONG 18f8)fGRoa)6 Dm6-10-13- i - — . .. 

P4&-0QP COPPei STREAK 21 RBFJL^ &J0nl CadogwOT Forator B-IO- 
.. IM8145 8HALnU)BOV30(FA(SBurttod)MrtJWIonnK 
15 wvm> OS. FEVBI20 {FA (C Pastor) IK* J Wonaoott 10- 


SJOHrfS — 
Hr D MnCaln (7) 90 

——.JUmr 37 

- ILawiawcap) a99 

R0raaaa(7) 88 

— 8Da*taa(5) 83 


332440 SARA LAIC 37 (S Psarca) N AyWta 8-1( 
40P/3U ROXALL. CUMto 22 (M Mottay)P BaMay 
404P48 STOMIY MONARCH 15 (8A(riMftm 



18 

is taff^ea mEimMwaJoMMH 

19 SPS0O4* BEJAYJAY 53 (B^ (J Doow^ CTriaQna 6-1(V6__ 

20 08S90 8 QSBtAL TSatER 32 (9 PafrOar) J Orfaton 7-16-3--— 

BETTMfc»2C0imVtoxicfi.6-1 Mhttr Boot 7-1 Laptoffa. FortLJn q.B-1 WoM SCktap. %1 Tit xBBntor. 

10-1 Stormy Monarch. GamralTMnr. 14-1 Cogpar Smak. Pop Sang, ShalcNoBay, HM aOm. 

HBfc SPACE FAK 8-10-7 SMcFkifand (12-1) RLna 13 ran 


lO HP0OW wanAiamnw— 

19 M33HI DWHAWTW 43 (FJpStophoraJC Popcwn 8-10-4- 
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CRICKET; A MINI-CAMERA EMBEDDED IN THE MIDDLE STUMP IS THE LATEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION IN TV COVERAGE 

Helping the viewer follow the ball all the way 




After the birdVeyn view ami the 

tke pitch - we 
have the stnmp’s-eye view, 
the latest piece of mm- 
o be osed by 
Nine fa Aostralfa. 





The picture 
Chaari, the 


on the left shows 
Pakistan No. 11, 


bowled by Alderman at the Sydney 
Cricket Gmod yesterday. The 
picture above shows the ball jest 
before impart, with the bowler 
visible In the background, framed by 
the batsman's front leg and bat 
The key to this new diaeni— of 
television coverage is the small dark 
area on the lower part of the middle 
It is hi fart j 


camera, half the » 
embedded ia the wood. 

The camera has already predated 
dramatic pictmes from the Aostra- 
Baa Grand Prix meter race aad 
made its cricketing debat fa a 
Shield ■■««* at Hobart. 
Viewers win bow be able to share 
the experience of faring the world’s 
elite bowiera. 


Campaign 
stepped 
up on eve 
of game 

From Richard Streeton 
Johannesburg 

When on a normal tour the 
mood would have become 
anticipatory and buoyant, the 
unhappy atmosphere surround¬ 
ing the visit by Mike Gatung 
and his side has become more 
soured than ever on the eve of 
the first unofficial Test match, 
which starts here tomorrow. In 
addition to the South African 
government's expulsion yes¬ 
terday of two journalists, Paul 
Weaver of Today and Gareth 
Furby of Independent Radio 
News, there were growing re¬ 
ports that anti-apartheid pro¬ 
testers are planning their largest 

demonstrations so far. 

Jesse Jackson, the American 
civil rights leader, is due to 
arrive in South Africa today, 
and the National Sports Con¬ 
gress is hoping to persuade him 
to join the protests. Two 
demonstrations are scheduled at 
the team's hotel today with 
protest action also arranged for 
outside the ground during the 
first two days of the match. On 
Saturday there will be a march 
to the Wanderers ground. 

A spokesman. Moss 
Mashishi, said the protests 
repres en ted part of a broad 
ca m pa i g n to destroy apartheid. 
“We appeal to President de 
Klerk to demonstrate his good 
fefth in bis attempts at reconcili¬ 
ation by cancelling the tour,” he 
said. There was also a protest 
yesterday by staff at the hotel 
where the South African cricket¬ 
ers are staying. The hotel work¬ 
ers were under the mistaken 
impression that Gatling’s side 
were also staying there. 

Meanwhile, the English team 
bad a free day. The South 
Africans held their first practice 
together at the Wanderers, 
where the pitch is expected to be 
hard and bouncy. 

Gatling has hinted that if 
necessary be would not hesitate 
to omit Exnburey and play an 
extra batsman, relying on four 
fist bowlers. With Dilley noi 
expected to be fit these would 
presumably be Foster, Thomas, 
Jarvis and Ellison. In these 
circumstances it is possible that 
Cowdrey’sail-round skills might 
gain him preference over 
Barnett for the extra batting 
place. 

It is hoped to announce the 
English side after nets today and 
more couki also emerge then 
about the pr o gress of Dilley's 
troublesome knee. There are. 
apparently, no reserves on 
standby in England. 

One player the English team 
will definitely not be calling 
upon is Clive Rice, the deposed 
South African captain, who has 
been quoted as saying that if 
Wessds, who has played for 
Australia, can play for South 
Africa, be does not see why be. 
Rice, cannot play for the English 
XI. 

Rice bolds British citizenship 
and a United Kingdom passport 
and claims that 14 years in 
county cricket indisputably 
makes him eligible: Both David 
Graveney. the English manager, 
and the South African Cricket 
Union have denied that this 
would be allowed to happen. 

Journalists expelled, page Z0 


Small’s example is 
one for England’s 
bowlers to emulate 

Ftom Alas Lee, Cricket Correspondent, Basseterre 
Graham Gooch is not given to discipline or pattern to the 


Alderman keeps 
Imran in check 

From John Woodcock, Sydney 


premature public denounce¬ 
ments, so when be confessed 
yesterday, that “our bowlers 
still have a lot of hard work to 
do 1 *, the anxiety wi thin the 
England ramp was easily 
discernible. 

Gooch, the England cap¬ 
tain, did his best to paper over 
the cracks exposed by an 
alarming final afternoon to the 
touring team's opening game, 
in which the Leeward islands 
scored at upwards of six runs 
an over against lamentably ill- 
directed bowling. 

“You have to remember 
they have not bowled in a 
serious game for four or five 
months,” Gooch said defen- 
avrty. “Of course, it is going 
to be lough on them early on.” 

Bui perhaps he was closer to 
the worrying realities of En¬ 
gland's inexperienced attack 
when he added: “1 am sure 
some of them would like to 
have bowled better.” 

With the honourable excep¬ 
tion of Small, whom Gooch 
rated “the pick of the bowlers 
on both sides”, there was little 


England bowling. A total of 20 
overs from Malcolm and 
DeFreiias produced an ag¬ 
gregate of 130 runs. 

Medlyoott, plainly suffering 
from nerves, was also severely 
punished in his first spell But 
having dismissed his tor¬ 
mentor Arthurton, who hit 
seven sixes off the young spin 
bowler, Medlycott ohungfri 
ends and delivered an al¬ 
together steadier second spdL 
Medlycott, I am convinced, 
has a future on this tour. IBs 
bubbly nature has an infec¬ 
tiously good influence in the 
dressing room, allowing no 
one to feel sorry for himself 
and, given the sustained work 
be needs, he may yet prove to 
be the man who gives England 
their best chance of bowling 
out the West Indies in a Test 
environment 

For a spin bowler to have 
that opportunity, however, 
England urgently need more 
seam bowling of the con¬ 
trolled. miserly quality pro¬ 
vided here by Small. Fraser, 
who missed the first match. 


Tasmania suffer 
in Cyclone Craig 

Overseas cricket by Simon Wflde 


Cyclone Nancy, which put paid 
to the first two days of the 
Sydney Tot match, brong h t 
even greater havoc is its wake 
for Tasmania's batsmen in Bris¬ 
bane- After wafting for a day and 
a half for the weather to ease, 
they were swept aside by a 
devastating spell of bowfbtg by 
Craig McDermott, the Qneeos- 
land fast bowler, who returned 
career-best figures of eight for 
44. On Sunday, be took six 
wickets in a spell of nine overs. 

McDermott, aged 24, has 
failed to live op Co e xpectati ons 
since taking 30 Test wickets 
during Australia's tour of Eng¬ 
land in 198S. but any yet fulfil 
bis great premise. His right 
wickets took his tally in seven 
Sheffield Shield matches tins 
season to 37. 

It should be noted that the 
Tasmanian batting line-op is no 
posbover. Shipper*) has been 
selling Us wicket dearly aO 
season, while Cox is rivalling 
Lehmann as bmgeoning 
young talent in the country. 

Last week, he became one of 
Che youngest Australians to 
score a century In each innings 
when he followed his first- 
innings 175 with a mateb- 
wtaming 102 against New South 
Wales at Hobart. Although 
Tasmania escaped with a draw 
on Monday, Hookey scoring 116 
not oat, Qkcbs&uhI took lint- 


innings points to extend their 
lead in the Sheffield Shield. 

The weather has also been 
re st/ r eti re in the West Indies, 
which may not entirely dis¬ 
appoint the Eng la n d touring 
ride. Georgetown, where they 
are due to play the third Test 
from March 10 to IS, has yet to 
witness a ball bowled in the Red 
Stripe Cup, the Caribbean's 
first-class competition. 

Guyana's four-day matches 
against both Trinidad and To¬ 
bago, at the weekend, and 
against J am aica, last month, 
have been lost. 

On Dominica. Barbados as¬ 
sured themselves of second place 
in the cop tabic with a nine- 
wicket win over Windward Is¬ 
lands. Gordon Greenidge, who 
had cat short a contract with a 
dub side in Canberra to return 
for the Red Stripe Cop, and thus 
qualify for selection for the Test 
series against England, scored 
his second centoory of the season 
for Bar b a do s. 

In South Africa, Western 
Province have reason to feel 
aggrieved tint they only shared 
the Carrie Cop with Eastern 
Province, after having bad the 
better of the five-day final, 
which was drawn. Maguire, the 
Australian, took his 4Stb Carrie 

Cop wicket of the season during 
the final, an Eastern Pro vi nce 
record. 


cannot expect many more 
easy days. 

Small left the field before 
the end of Monday’s play, 
comp laining of a strain under 
the right armpit No one 
appears to consider it serious 
bin in their present situation it 
is still an unwanted addition 
to England's worries. 

The ongoing casualty bul¬ 
letins relate to EUcock and 
Lamb. Their casebooks 
should be closed following a 
full practice today on Si Lucia. 

Lamb will be included in 
the team to play the Wind¬ 
ward Islands starting tomor¬ 
row, providing his calf injury 
stands up to a session of 
sprints. Ellcock's position re¬ 
mains more problematical but 
his back strain will be put 
under revealing pressure when 
he is instructed, for the first 
time, to bond flat out in the 
nets. If he foils to come 
through the test satisfactorily, 
a replacement bowler looks 
certain to be summoned. The 
choice rests between Glamor¬ 
gan's Steve Watkin and Chris 
Lewis, of Leicestershire. 

Sri Lanka 
bowlers 
in control 

Perth (AFP) - A sparkling 
display by Aravinda de Silva 
provided the platform for a 
comfortable Sri lankan win 
over a Western Australian 
Country XI at Brookioo, West¬ 
ern Australia. De Silva hit 96 
from only 82 balls in 100 
minutes, with 10 fours and three 
sixes, and had no challengers for 
the man-of-the-matcb award. 

lo their last game before they 
meet Pakistan in a World Series 
Cup one-day game in Brisbane 
on Saturday, the Sri Lankans 
made 173 ia 37.1 of the allotted 
45 overs, a disappointing total 
in view of Aravinda de Silva's 
dominance. The only other 
contribution of any note came 
from Asoka de Silva, who hit 
four fours while staying just 
over an hour for 32. 

Waldron, the captain and 
wicketkeeper of the Country 
team, took four catches and 
made two dumpings, while 
Menasse, who took three for 53 
was the most successful bowler. 

Shine (29) and Knuckey (22) 
were the only home batsmen 
who looked like getting to grips 
with a Sri Lankan attack in 
which Asoka de Silva. Madura- 
singhe, Ratnayake and 
Ramona yoke each claimed two 
wickets as the Country XI were 
dismissed for 110 and beaten by 
63 runs. 

SCORES: Sri Lankans 173 (P A da $3va 
961: Western AusraBan Gantry XI 110. 
Sfl Lankan won Dy 63 nna. 


Progress was so slow in the third 
Test match a gain yesterday that 
even with the extra day, making 
four altogether, a draw has 
begun to look inevitable. A 
delayed Stan, owing to morning 
rain, and an early finish, because 
of bad light, meant that only 
33.4 overs were bowled. In those 
Pakistan took their first innings 
from 110 for five to 199 all out. 

Three more wickets for Alder¬ 
man gave him figures of five for 
65; Jones held a brilliant catch at 
cover point. Mart Taylor a good 
one at second slip; and Imran 
took his batting average for the 
senes to 69. Except, briefly, 
while Wasim was Imran's part¬ 
ner, Australia had thing s much 
their own way. 

Alderman has bowled beauti¬ 
fully in this match, swinging the 
ball around, usually away from 
the bat, and cutting it back off 
the pitch, his length and direc¬ 
tion gave the batsmen no re¬ 
spite. Of the three sides to have 
played Test cricket in Australia 
this winter — New Zealand, Sri 
Lanka and Pakistan — only the 
Sri Lankans have come any¬ 
where near to getting the better 
of him. When Wasim' made his 
free-hitting hundred in the Ad¬ 
elaide Test match, Alderman 
was missing. 

Imran's was a curious innings 
not greatly troubled yet pitched 
in a lower key than the situation 
seemed to demand. It had 
become dear by yesterday that 
the pilch is unlikely ever to 
become a snakepit, as some 
thought it might. It would have 
allowed a more adventurous 
approach than Pakistan's. In¬ 
deed, needing a victory lo level 
the series Pakistan owed it to 
themselves to try harder than 
they did lo gel the game moving. 

Imran batted 4% hours for his 
unbeaten 82. Once yesterday be 
took two quick paces to Aider- 
man and deposited him on to 
the Hill at wide long oil 
Whereupon he twiddled his bat 
and went back into his shell. It 
was rather as though he has 
already decided that it is not a 


match which can be won so 
much as one that must on no 
account be lost. 

Hardly a day passes, any¬ 
where when Australia are in the 
field, without the really rather 
grotesque Hughes gening in¬ 
volved in some sort of a shin¬ 
dig. Like Dennis Lillee before 
him (though Lillee, of course, 
was a mud) better bowler) 
Hughes is going to be respon¬ 
sible for thousands of young 
Australians growing up to think 
that cricket has more to do with 
street fighting than with subtlety 
and style. 

Hughes is a big-hearted 
bowler and a pretty good one, 
capable of moving the ball away 
from the bat quite disconcert¬ 
ingly. His captain likes to have 
him on the side. But he looks for 
trouble. Yesterday it was 
Waqar’s turn to feel the strength 
of Hughes' shoulder when the 
two collided as Waqar was going 
fora ran. 

Imran says that in the second 
Test match Hughes "sledged 
him so obscenely and with such 
regularity that in the end be 
asked him what be thought he 
was achieving by u Somewhat 
abashed Hughes spluttered 
something to the effect that he 
was letting off steam. It is just 
another area, I am afraid, where 
umpires are for too lax. 


PAKISTAN: Rnrt kvrings 

Aarntr MaR c Hesty b AMonram- 

Ran*: Raja e and b Hughes-0 

Shoafc M oham ma d tom a AManw s n — 9 
JnadMMateAmtbHufpM — 49 
tyaz Ahmad c M A Taytor b Rackontam 0 

Imran Khan not out_I 

Waste AkramcMATaytorbAktennan 10 
tSetoemYauaufcJonesbRadtamam 6 

Tauaeet Ahmad b Alder ma n _-,— 0 

Waqar Youngs c Vetatte b Hughes _ 18 
Nadeam Ghatl b Alderman 0 

Extras (b 1. ■> 7. nb 4)- 12 

Total 199 

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-2.2-1S, 320.4-51, 
5-108.6-’2ft 7- 154.9- ISO. 9-1BT. 
BOWLING: Aldermen 333-10-65-5 (In** 
Kfcjohes 31-16-70-3 (&*>). Recfcamenn 22- 
8-33-2 (inb): P L Taylor £-1-23-0. 
AUSTRALIA: M A Taylor, MRJ Watts. 
T M Moody. DM Jones. SR Waugh. *AR 
Border, ft A Haoiy. P L Taylor. C G 
Ractanann, M G Hurries and T M 
Alderman. 


Young England slide 
to brink of defeat 


Perth (AFP) — Young Australia 
outplayed Young England on 
the opening day of the third and 
deriding four-day match at the 
WaCA Ground here yesterday. 
After bundling out Young Eng¬ 
land in the firsi innings for 71 in 
only 106 minutes. Young 
Australia scored 233 for five to 
lead by 162 runs and seem set to 
wm and secure the series after 
the first two games were drawn. 

The England innings was 
destroyed by the fast-medium 
bowler. Sieve Cottrell, whose 
disconcerting swing and bounce 
gave him the impressive figures 
of six for 40 from an umbroken 
spell of II overs. The only 
Englishman who threatened lo 
come to terms with the attack 
was John Crawley, a player 
registered with Lancashire, who 
made 27. 

Young Australia dominated 
just as Completely with the bat 
Their opening pair, Jason 
Young (691 and Brad Ruddcll 
(68). figured in an opening stand 
of 132 in 144 minutes. 


ENGLAND VC: Fkst intengs 

P A Grayson c Harper b CottraU . 0 

P C L Hohwn C Aflttm b OSver-0 

J P Grawtoy c Young b Adam-17 

MKeocncvOMteflDCottnN . .. - 12 

K A Bupgr c Warper D Cornea —— 10 

T A RaOfort c Vowtes t> Conrafl-3 

■jw M Noon c fludtefl b Atfam_10 

0 Gough c RuCkteU b Cornea —-5 

JCHatebrunouf-5 

J O Bony c Harpor b Cottrsfl-4 

DG Cork not out-2 

Extras |w 1.nt>2) —.3 

TOUT-71 

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-2, 2-2. 3-17.4-37. 
508. 6-49.7-57,8-04.0-64. 

BOWLING. CottroB 11-1-42-ft Ofiter 6-2- 
13-1; AUten 4-0-18-2. 


AUSTRALIA VC: First Innings 

J C Young cKoech D Baity-09 

tB R RuOdok Rjw b Hattetr-68 

D R Manyn e Noon t> Hsoatl —_8 

-.30 
... 32 
— 18 
— 6 


J Longer c Haftoway b Butter 

L O Harper nor out-— 

K E VOwies b Car* 


Extras(fc 1,« l.nb6) . 
Tout <5 tests). 


233 


nnfiBY UNION 


Guscott marriage 
rules him out of 
tour to Argentina 

BjD,™) Hands. RngbyCor^poode^ 


Jeremy Guscott, the Bath 
centre, who has scored in every 
international matdj he ms 
played for England, will be 
unavailable for the tour to 
Argentina in July. He is due to 

be married that month, five 
days after the projected date of 
the first game on July 9. 

It seems probable that 
Guscott, of the present England 
squad for the five nations 
championship, may not be 
alone In missing the seven- 
match tour, which ends on 
August 4. Consideration is being 
given to the dose-season de¬ 
mands made of several leading 
players over the past three years 
— a nd that win be made of them 
in 1991, World Cup year — and 
selection for Argentina may be 


trimmed on that account. 

However, Guscott’s position 
of centre is an area of some 
En glish strength. For inffi 111 ^ 
the replacements in Paris last 
weekend included two centres, 
Simon Halliday and Fran 
Clough; two more capped cen¬ 
tres, John Buckton and Bryan 
Barley, played in the B inter¬ 
national: and the student inter¬ 
national included the promising 
Philip de Glanville, from Dur¬ 
ham University, who has al¬ 
ready been a replacement in a B 
match. 

Guscott win, though, be part 
of an unchanged Bath side to 
play Headiugley on Saturday, in 
the fourth round of the 

Saracens’s 
game plan 
criticized 

SaiMMw will be meeting repre¬ 
sentatives of Enfield Borough 
Council on Friday in the hope of 
resolving the tong-running saga 
of their search for a new home 
(David Hands writes). But they 
will do so against a background 
this week of recrimination from 
David Conway, the deputy lead¬ 
er of the council, who issued a 
statement yesterday declaring 
that the Courage Clubs Champ¬ 
ionship first-division dub. was 
“grossly irresponsible” to go 
ahead with plans for the league 
game with Bath on March 31. 

Soracens's home, at Bramley 
Sports Ground, Southgate, is in 
Conway's ward and he, along 
with Enfield council's leader,' 
the chief executive and Michael 
FortiDo MP. will be involved in 
Friday's discussion concerning 
the possibility of removal to a 
more suitable area not for from 
Souih&ue. 

Conway said he was “bom-, 
fied” to discover the dub bad 
arranged a fixture which, he 
claims, would create serious 
safety problems both on the 
ground and nearby roads. The 
difficulty arises because of the 
.travelling support for Bath, the 
league champions, which would 
draw a crowd of some 3,000 to 
Southgate. The councillor is 
pressing for the game to be 
cancelled or reallocated. 


Saraoens had hoped to erect a 
temporary stand and a marquee 
to deal with the crowd at a 
match which they have made 
aU-ticket and wQJ limit to 2,500. 
Barney Richards, the secretary, 
said yesterday: “1 wrote to the 
council drawing their attention 
to the game, making the point 
that we were concerned and 
looking for their support and 
help.” 

He has written to the council 
again, expressing concern at the 
attack on the dub, which, 
elsewhere, talks of verbal and 
physical attacks on local res¬ 
idents by rugby enthusiasts. 
“The main complaint is visitors 
parking cars across people’s 
driveways,” he said. 


pilldngton Cup. 
retain the same XV. and 
replacements, who beat Harle¬ 
quins 9-0 last month. 

Leicester, tod, art unchanged 
for their home tie against West 
Hartlepool- Having beaten 
LondonWelsh by 40 points m 
the last round, they will now 
take on another third division 

^ Rory Underwood, the Leices¬ 
ter wing, is on the verge of 
becoming the most capped Eng¬ 
land back. Selection agarat 
Wales on February 17 would be 
his 37th cap. erasing the mark 
set by David Duckham, of 
Coventry, between 1969 and 
1976. 

Elsewhere in the cup, 
Gosfbrth, who play a full- 
strength Gloucester at Gates¬ 
head, have named Colin While, 
the former England loose-head, 
prop, in their squad, white, 
aged 42, and Terry Roberts, the 
lock, were part of the team who 
played Gloucester in the cup 12 
years ago. « 

Tim Rodber. the England B 
No. 8, returns to the Army XV 
who play Cambridge University 
this afternoon. He appears in 
the same pack as Richard 
Castleton, the Havant and $ 
Hampshire lock, who will be 
m aking bis first app earanc e for 
the Army.' Michael Walker, the 
Scottish under-21 cap who is at 
Bristol University, re tains his 
place at stand-off half 

Jones to 
help Fiji 
cup plans 

Alan Jones, the former Austra¬ 
lian coach, has agreed to act in 
an advisory capacity to Fiji as 
they prepare for the 1991 World 
Cup (David Hands writes). 
Moreover, two farmer All 
Blacks, Tane Norton and Eddie 
Dunn, will be working with the 
Fijian national squad as part of 
a New Zealand technical aid 
scheme to the islanders. 

Fiji are due to visit Japan, 
where they will play an inter¬ 
national on March 3, before 
taking port in the Cathay Pa¬ 
cific-Hong Kong Bank sevens at 
the end of the month. There¬ 
after, they will take pan in the 
So tub Pacific championship. 

Local sponsorship .has been 
found to bring Jones to Fiji, 
where he will advise on coach¬ 
ing, while Norton, the former 
booker, and Dunn, a stand-off 
half in his playing days, will be 
there for longer periods. 

• Cornwall have been stunned 
by a 5,000cut in capacity, under 
the Safety ofSpon Grounds Act, 
for the Toshiba Coumy.Champ- 
ionship semi-final against 
Mid dl es e x, at Redruth, on 
March 3 (Michael Austin 
writes). Only 11.000 spectators 
will be allowed to stand, com¬ 
pared with the previous 16.000, 
and Cornwall are expecting a 
capacity crowd of almost 12,000 
fix- the first time in 21 years. 

Dr Victor Phillips, the Coro- 
wall secretary, said: “We last Js. 
closed the gates for the final 
against Lancashire in 1969. We 
expected the restrictions, but 
anticipated only a 15 per cent 
drop in capacity, which would 
have been 2,400. 

“We had a 7.500 crowd for 
last year’s semi-final against 
Warwickshire, but there was so 
much interest in the final, with 
20,000 travelling from Cornwall 
to Twickenham, that we are 
expecting a sell-out this time.” 

With the Redruth stand 
capacity restricted to 669, all 
seating tickets were sold within 
a week of Cornwall qualifying 
for the Semi-final. 




Ireland’s injured need 
time to earn selection 


By George Ace 


D C Maim. W J Adam. S O CrttraB. S B 
Otwr and D Carte to Da. 

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-132.2-142,3-147. 
*-204. 5-231. 

BOWLING' HsMtt 16-3-46-2; Gough 6-1- 
3Mk Outer 6-1-21-1: Cork 16-3-57-1: 
Bony 15-4-69-1. 


SKIING: OLYMPIC CHAMPION CHASING RECORD-EQUALLING FOURTH OVERALL TITLE IN WORLD CUP 

The Royal inspiration Zurbriggen extends lead oyer rival 

By a Special Correspondent 


Inspired by the news that their 
patron, the Duchess of York, is 
to attend the final day of the 
Portakabin British Services 
International Alpine champion¬ 
ships in Megeve. France, the 
Army women’s team duly won 
the carriage special slalom. 

The final two training runs of 
the men's dow nhill showed that 
the defending champions, the 
Italian AJpini. will have to ski at 
their best if they are to retain 
their team title in tomorrow’s 
race. 

Although the temperature 
rose to S* C with dear blue skies, 
the snow conditions were per¬ 
fect for both the slalom and the 
downhill training. 

Tana McQuoid. of the Army, 
won the individual carriage 
special slalom event, by being 
the fastest servicewoman over 
both courses, held on the Radaz 
piste. However. Helen Keegan, 
of the British Ski High School. 


who are skiing as guess in the 
competition, recorded the 
quickest time in the second ran. 

Osta Walter, an Italian Alpini, 
recorded the best downhill 
training time of 1:37.71 on the 
2,200-metre De L'Etrei couise- 

Cnig Bennington, of the 
Royal Air Force, produced the 
fastest descent from the British 
military skiers, in 1:45.62. Once 
again, the national handicap 
skiers arc attending the meeting, 
and four of the racers. led by 
Mike Hammond, participated 
in the downhill training runs. 
From here, they move on to the 
world championships in Colo¬ 
rado later this month. 


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ROVN Air Foroa Lada. 3 Royal Tte«y 


Counnayeur (Renter) — Pirmin 
Zurbriggen. the Swiss all- 
rounder. stretched his overall 
World Cud lead with his first 
victory of 1990 in rhe s apa- 
giant slalom yesterday. 

Chasing a record-equalling 
fourth overall title in his final 
year of competition, the Olym¬ 
pic downhill champi oo clocked 
1 min 22.99scc on hard, compact 
snow in brilliant onwhiw 

Zurbriggen swept in ahead of 
Guenther Mader, of Austria, at 
1:22.77. with Peter Runggaldicr, 
of Italy, third, in 1:23.08, 

“I just charged doom hwng 
I wanted to win after all foe 
frustrating races I've had in the 
past few weeks,” Zurbriggen 
sakL “There were lots of carves 
and bumps, and you had to ski 
well to stay on.” 

It was his third success this 
season and the first since the 
opening downhill of the season 
at Val Gardena, Italy, in Decem¬ 
ber. With Ole Christian 
Funtseih. ofNorway, his near es t 
rival for the overall crown. 


finishing sixteenth after wmtrwig 
several mistakes, the Swiss 
stretched his lead to 83 points 
and now hia 295. 

Furuseth, who docked faster 
times than Zurbriggen in the last 
two super-crams m the French 
resorts of Val d*ls£rc and Les 
Menuires. slid into the first cite 
and aim lost s peed in the final 
pan of the run. 

Furuseth said he made a bad 
mistake in the steep upper part 
of the track, where many slews 
lost time. “I went too wide at a 
bump and I could not see the 
next gate," he said-“Host a good 
opportunity." 

Zurbngg-o, a winner in the 
discipline in Scstriere, Italy, in 
December, also took over the 
lead in the super-giant standings 
on 73 points. He displaced Lars- 
Boetje Enksson. of Sweden, 
who finished fourteenth in 
Counnayeur and was pushed 
down to third place on 56 points 
behind Mader on 61. 

Kart Ladstacner was fifth and 

the veteran, Danilo 


Sbardcllotto, eighth. The West 
German teammates, Markus 
Wasmcicr and Hans Sluffcr, 
were tied in sixth place. 

The next men’s races will be a 
slalom and a grant slalom in 
Jasna. Czechoslovakia, on 
March 3 and 4. A downhill 
originally scheduled for Low, 
Switzerland, on February II, 
has been canceled because of a 
lack of snow and may be mcod 
in Are next month. 

RESULT: 1. P Zmrlggm 
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(Stetri, Irrtn 
iter (Austria) 
, 1:23.08.4. H 


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l£&27, u Wmiwiv IWC), 123X7; ft a 
Sterteimtt TO. 123J1: 9. 0 fww 
(SwittL 12340; 10. P Aocota (Swim. 
123^7; Ti.0Meh»w($*te). 1:23,48,12. 
s Ebermrar (Austral, iZUt: 13. n 
Mtmng (SwvL 153 53 M. l-S Bftsson 
(Gwel. 1:23.85; IS. F Hteuw (SmsL 
ItZLTft Graft ptecw» 52. O Bad. 
127.76 : 53. M Baft *Md On 

OMnft 1. Zurtrigean. 2SSpta: 2, 
Funaottu 212:3. Hater. 193.4. A Bttwr 

r ll 144.5. H Hoefloteor (Austria!. 139; 

A SuwtJaJ (horj. 122; Su g a r B teftt 
a l l i u m : 1. ZuteMgeon, 73.2, Mater. 61: ft 
Erflcasan. 5ft 4. neearft 52: S. Furusotn. 
<3. ft Homing. 33. 


CYCLING 

Cammish tied 
to Raleigh 
for two years 

Britain's most successful time 
trialr.L ton Cammish. aged 33, 
has turned professional for Ra¬ 
leigh with a two-year, five-figure 
contract (a Special Corres¬ 
pondent writes). 

The first man to have covered 
50 miles in a time trial at more 
than JOmph — fiis Ume for the 
100 miles is a remarkable 3hr 
31 mi n 53sec—the Si Ncols land 
agent will be attacking unpaccd 
place io place road records. He 
is looking for fresh challenges. 

At 6ft 3in and over I3st, 
Cammish has as relaxed a 
temperament as that of any top- 
class athlcu: in Britain; he has 
been a rider with (he most 
exacting personal standards. 

An example was when he 
withdrew from the 1984 Olym¬ 
pic team time trial in Los 
Angeles, saying he was not fit 
enough to justify his place. 


With five key players injured, it 
might have been wiser to have 
postponed next Monday night's 
meeting of foe Ireland selectors 
to choose the team for the 
match against France in Paris 
on March 3. 

Jimmy McCoy, a prop. Steve 
Smith, a hooker. Pat O'Hara, a 
flanker, Brendan Mullin, a 
centre, and Gary Hatpin, a prop, 
are under a cloud. Four of them 
have figured in the two champ¬ 
ionship games this season, and 
McCoy most certainly would 
have but for injury. 

McCoy is due to have splints 
removed from a thumb tendon 
injury in just under two weeks; 
Smith is still experiencing dis¬ 
comfort after springing a rib 


cartilage against England; 
O'Hara left foe field against 
Scotland with a cheekbone frac¬ 
ture, which X-rays confirmed 
on Monday; Mullin had a knee 
probe on Monday; and Halpin 
spent a week in hospital after a 
bom of internal bleeding follow¬ 
ing a league match a week after 
his international debut a g ain st 
England. 

It seems most unlikely that 
these players will be ignored for 
a match that is the best part of a 
month away. Rather thaw nam- 
mg foe team on Tuesday it 
might have been more appro-. 
pnate to have listed 30 players 
to attend a squad session at 
Lan sdowpe Road on Sunday 
week, after which the tawn 
could have h aw n announced. 


4R. 


Knowledge of the game 
limits Argentine side 


By Michael Stevenson 


Poeklington. 
St George’s. 


19 

-10 


St George's College, from Bue¬ 
nos Aires, had lost five matches 
and won one during their British 
tour, and it was to their credit 
that they came so close to 
upsetting Poeklington in a 
scrappy, shapeless encounter 
yesterday. Poddingxon won 
with two goals, a uy and a 
penalty, to a try and two 
penalties. 

The stronger and heavier 
Poeklington pack would have 
dominated bu: for foe courage 
and spirit of the St George's 
tackling. None did better i n this 
department than Mortey. j Q me 
centre, and Gilroy and 
Miquelarena. in the pack. 

The problem for St George's 
was foe vast disparity among 
their team with regard to know? 
ledge of foe game, and its, laws i n 
particular. Several members oF 
foe side were dedicated flv- 
hackers. 7 

Poeklington, in the absence of 
Edwards, their North of Enp- 
tand stand-off half, f-r. 

from impressive, The backs ran 
across foe field and no one 


seemed capable of straightening 
foe attack or timing a pass. 

It was 27 minutes before Day. 
wno had worked several outra- 
geous dummy scissors, found a 
gap to score and convert, but a 
penalty by Lord cut 
Pocklington’s lead. 

Fierce Poeklington pre ss ure 
was rewarded when Newsome 
foe blind side and Reece 
“Cored- Lord's second penalty, 
tor a late tackle by Gilbertson., 
mate it 104 ai half-time. 

. X ac reg the wind in the second 
half. Clarke, fielding a Blade 
put the speedy Massey 
away for foe best tty of. foe 
match. But St Geotgc's, after a 
spell of pressure, scored when 
Lori * Peeled off a nine- man ' 
scrum for an unorthodox tty.. 
P 3 * , faa d the final say -with a- 
penalty . 

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FOOTBALL 


League may decide 
to have its own 
membership scheme 


- -.^7 1990 

RUGBY LEAGUE 


The Football League mauage- 
. ment committee win be urged 
to implement a voluntary 
r. national membership scheme 
W at its meeting in Manchester 
today. Tre vor Phillips, the 
. commercial director of the 
League, believes that such a 
scheme would help raise some 
ofthe£l30 million required to 
convert all first and second 
division grounds into all* 
- sealer stadiums fay 1994. 

Phiffips, who says he will be 

pushing the idea “as aggres¬ 
sively as possible” insists that 
the demand for a scheme 
exists among supporters. “We 
have, carried out a lot of 
research over the last 18 
m onth s, and that has shown 
that a lot of people would join 
a national membership 
scheme,” be added. 

“1 think the feding out there 
# among the genuine suppor ter s 
is that the hooligans have H 
it their way Jong enough: now 
. it is time lor us to take the 
game bade. 

Fulham get 
ready to 
move out 

By Dennis Signy 

While Hammersmith and Ful¬ 
ham council pursue an applica¬ 
tion for a compulsory purchase 
order on Craven rjitum , 
Jimmy Hill, the Fulham chair ¬ 
man, is going ahead with plans 
for his dub to move out and 
ensure their future at a new site. 
Fulham withdrew their sup- 
v. port for the order last week and 
W readied an agreement worth up 
to £13 million with Cabra 
Estates, the owners of the 
ground, to leave Craven Cottage 
in the next three years, with an 
option of a further three years* 
sharing at another ground, prob¬ 
ably Queen’s Park Rangers, at 
Cabra's expense if they have not 
found a permanent home by 

thgn, 

It was revealed yesterday that 


By Ixxtise Taylor 

“It depends what sort of 
benefits are attached to such a 
scheme, bull believe there is a 
good chance of it working if 
we get the ground rules right.” 
It is envisaged that member¬ 
ship would cost around £5 and 
supporters would be en- 
comaged to participate by a 
series of incentives, including 
discounts on tickets and club 
fa ciliti es, combined with 
priority for tickets at grounds 

where capacities could be 

greatly reduced during the 
next decade. 

Lord Justice Taylor op¬ 
posed a national membership 
scheme as planned by the 
Government, because he had 
“serious misgivings about its 
likely impact on safety”. 

However, the type of system 
philips would like to see 
implemented would not only 
be voluntary, but would also 
not involve the use of expen¬ 
sive and experimental 
computerized technology, 
involving the use of plastic 


cards at the turnstiles. One 
company, ADT Check-in, has 
already offered a scheme 
based on vouchers. 

The management com¬ 
mittee win devote part of the 
meeting today to consider 
other implications of the Tay¬ 
lor repeal. One subject to 
come under discussion will be 
the possibility of imposing a 
levy on transfer fees. Andy 
Williamson, the assistant sec¬ 
retary of the League, «»H- “it 
will be looked at” 

The remainder of the 
committee’s time wifi be spent 
discussing candidates to take 
over sponsorship of the 
League cup from Littiewoods 
next season. 

“I have firm offers from half 
a dozen different companies 
on my desk,” Phillips sauL “It 
is just a matter of taking time 
to choose the right one. It will 
almost certainly be a three- 
year agreement” The contract 
is likely to be worth around £3 
million. 


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^ will Coventry Gty were angry last 

B _ night at what they saw as the 

**y -UMffiss toigny lack of courtesy surrounding the 

While Hammersmith and Ful- 

ham council pursue an apptica- from Norwich 

tion for a compulsory purchase (Chris Moore writes), 
order on Oravai Oattan^ Coventry confirmed they had 

jSSy Sk SnL£St ss^ 000 ^ 

man, is going ahead with plans fa T^ r 1J Tottenham Hotspur 
Shis dub to move outaS 
ensure their fatnre at a new she. 

Ful ham withdrew their sup- 
port for the order last week and HE*?! 
readied an agreement worth ud “f Norwich chairman. 

Estates, the owners of the 
ground, to leave Craven Cottage 

lS£lhS? 3 ?i«BS 

knn»ofcMl&lln«thiDi«t 
ti—ir nZmZJZrZl Coventry, meanwhile, will be 
abtyQueen s Park Rangers, ax ^rjihout peter Billing for their 

found a pennanent home by final, tie* a gainst Nottingham 
ftwarcvataljMaday.ta, FbrBLTtecH. t^ld^ tete. 

afttfgsrSSfe smhm* 


• Now that Greenwich Council 
haw rejected Chariton Athfct- 
talks with Wimbfedon, who applicaiion for pfenning 
hope to move from Plough pemnSufor their rcturato 
“kJ ,l »ut Jhanng a new ^ Va jw the dub wifi have to 


two dubs pooled their financial 
resources they would be better 
able to get a stadium to stan¬ 
dard. Fulham have received £2 
million from Cabra and are due 


tal Palace for staying at Sdhurst 
Park next season. They are to 
appeal against Council refusal of 
permission fora redevelopment 
at The Valley to indude a 


another £4 million when they banqueting suite, rcstauiant and 
leave. office space. 

m • Chelsea’s home game with 

A nnaTGAVl 16 Tot t enham on Saturday will be 

■AUU.C18U1I W all-ticket. The Stamford Bridge 

nlani*oil box office will remain open until 

ClcdlvU OI 8pm on Friday for sale of the 

t1 jm 36,000 available tickets, 

aue&anons • The Stoke City manager, Alan 

, © _ _ Ball, has switched his attentions 

Vfr Anderson was awarded fo ^ Norw ich City winger. 


Ruel Fox, after failing to capture 
Paul Wood, of Brighton. 

• Don Welsh, the 78-year-old 
former England international 
left half who captained Chariton 
Athletic to victory in the 1947 
FA Cup final againM Burnley, 
died at his home in Stevenage at 
the weekend. After his playing 
days, Welsh went on to manage 
Brighton (1947-51) and 
Liverpool (1951-6). 

• Mark Barham is to sign a two- 
year contract with Brighton after 
impressing during a month’s 
trial. 

• The Manchester United util¬ 
ity player. Cotin Gibson, will 
make a long-awaited comeback 
on Saturday. The former Aston 
Villa midfield player has been 
ruled out by a knee injury, and 
also suffered from a Bells Palsy, 
an ailment which left pan of his 
face temporarily paralysed. 

• Nottingham Forest have ex¬ 
tended Lee Glover's loan to 
Barnsley for another month. 

• Notts County last night ex¬ 
pressed deep concern over their 
future in the wake of the Taylor 
report. They are losing £3,000 a 
week and warn they could be 
farced to dose down if the 
Government were to insist on 
their Meadow Lane ground 
being converted into an all-seat 
stadium. 


FA Trophy draw 


Forward pass: April Thomas, Young’s girlfriend, embraces the idea of his move to Leeds 

Job tempts Young to Leeds 


David Young, the Cardiff 
Wales and British Isles rugby 
union prop forward, s ig ned for 
! Leeds yesterday, admitting that 
the vital ingredient In the pack¬ 
age was the provision of a job. 

Yoong, aged 22, said that Ms 
inability to find work in Wales 
was a big factor in his derision to 

accept the offer from 
Headfagtey. He has been given a 
5lfr-year deal with Leeds, and 
expects to make his rugby 
league debut in the reserve team 
game at Halifax on Friday, 

Altboogh bo details have been 
irieasd by die Leeds dnfa, 
Young Is believed on good 
authority to have been given a 
contract which exceeds the 
£150,000 package given to Jona¬ 
than Davies when be joined 
Whines, die champions. Young 
appears to have been ghen a 
down payment of £403)00, a 
contract worth £120,000, and 
die vital carrots of a job and a 
car. 

Young, who had an ontstaad- 


By Keith Macklin 

ing tour with the Britain Isles in 
Australia last summer, «hfc “I 
am loo ki ng forward to pr o v ing 
myself in rugby league. X am 
yooag enough to have time to 
make die grade and to realize my 
full potential in the game, 
though I appreciate from the 
experience of others it is not 
easy to make the transition. 

“I leave rugby anion with 
■any happy memories of excit¬ 
ing matches with Wales and the 
British Lions, but I will now 
devote mysrif to a new game, a 
new dab and a new life.” 

Leeds were both defighted and 

relieved to be able to anno unce 
the capture of Young. They bad 
been rebuffed by Tony Clement, 
another Welsh star, who was on 
the verge of signing mtil talks 
brake down on the question of 
personal terms. 

Young comes at a crucial stage 
of the season. Leeds, dismissed 
from the Silk CM Challenge Chp 
at the prefiminary stage, are 
s econd hi the Stones Bitter 


SQUASH RACKETS 


Viv Anderson was awarded 
“Hriritsttfel damages” in the 
High Court yesterday over 
newspaper stories alleging that 
he assaulted the Wimbledon 
forward, John Fashann, in a 
grudge attack over a woman. 

Two Sunday Mirror articles 
had implied the Manchester 
United and former England 
defender lashed oat la the 
players' tunnel at WimMedoa 
because Fashann had stolen a 
woman from him. But this was 
wholly untrue, Anderson’s coun¬ 
sel, Thomas Shields, said. It had 
caused the footballer and Ms 
wife ‘‘considerable distress and 
embarrassment”. 

The stories, which both ap¬ 
peared on November 6, 1988, 
falsely claimed Anderson 
had nursed a grudge against 
Fashann for many years. The 
damages awarded were not 
disclosed. 


TWO ROUND: Colne v FSmborouBh or 
Windsor and Eton; KtogdontanvCheKan- 
ham or EnMd: YaovB or Aylesbwy v 
BanowWokonhani or Stafford vHanuw 
or Redbridge Rxost; Trtford or Waang v 
Leak or Nuneaton: Wtton or Kidder- 
nrirtstarv OomrorWOymoidh: Darlington 
v Whmnhoe or Runcorn; Woking or 
Saaham v Bath. 

Matches to be pfaywf on Saturday, 
February 24. 


Ambitions plans could 
benefit home countries 

From Colin McQniOan, Toronto 


sfe s Encounter of fourth kind 

sham, in a By George Ace 


CtiftooviUe and Gtesteran meet 
this afternoon far a fourth tune 
since December 30. Today's 
clash is a Budweiser Cup quar¬ 
ter-final game at Solitude, the 
venue last week when Gkntoran 
prevailed 1-0 in an Irish Cup 
fifth-round replay. 

Two 1-0 wins far Glentoran 
and a 1-1 draw are the results so 

far and there is nothing to 
suggest anything other than 
another dose encounter. 

The provincial challenge for 
Irish league honours, so vibrant 
a few weeks ago, is beginning to 
fade: Purtadown still lead, but 
only one point ahead oflInfield, 
with Glentoran a point away. 


Linfield have signed John 
Kerr, for the rest of the season. ] 
Kerr, who spent a season at , 
Portsmouth before going to 1 
Washington Stars, has been in 
impressive form in a Linfield 
side which has emerged from 
the shadows since his arrival, 
winning their last four games. 

Kerr was bom in Toronto of 
Scottish parents. A naturalized 
American, he trained with the 
US World Cup squad before 
arriving at Windsor Park. 

Roy Coyle, the Linfield man¬ 
ager, said: “Kerr has settled in 
very quickly. I could not be 
more pleased with him.” 


Liverpool deputy is outstanding 


Scotland and Wales may be¬ 
come early beneficiaries of an 
important North American 
thrust into world squash, if 
developments around this 
week's Mermen Cup here con¬ 
tinue as planned. 

Trevor Marshall, the Mermen 
promoter, who has already an¬ 
nounced plans for a top-grade 
women's tournament in Hong 
Kong later this year, and the 
men's 1992 World Open in 
C anada , is suggesting be wiD 
stage the 1993 World Open in 
Edinburgh, and then look to link 
the same event with the football 
World Cup in Los Angeles, in 

the following year. 

Marshall has adapted the 
international base of his lu¬ 
crative invitation field for this 
year’s round-robin Mermen 
event to include, for the first 
time, the Scottish No. 1, Mark 
Maclean, and the rMrfing 
Welshman, Adrian Davies. 


"Talking to these two guys has 
shown me that Edinburgh and 
Cardiff can become mqjor 
squash centres, and I have the 
sponsorship available to exploit 
that,” Marshall said. 

He plans to visit Cardiff 
during the Leekes Welsh Classic 
later ihfa month, to discuss 
commercial development on 
what is already the biggest men's 
Grand Prix event m Britain. 1 
Then he will go onto Edinburgh, i 
with Maclean, to pursue the ' 
staging of the World Open on a 
transparent glass conn, possibly | 
in the grounds of the castle. 

Maclean’s prospects in To¬ 
ronto this week are not so 
promising. He is grouped in the 
round-robin stages with Jahan¬ 
gir Khan, seven times the 
winner of a first pros that is 
raised this year to £15,000, Ross 
Norman, the former world 
c h a m p i on, from New Zealand, 
and Del Harris, the British 
champion. 


Liverpool and Sheffield, who 
will meet in the semi-final of the 
ESFA Trophy, both won thear 
quarter-finals by a 3-1 margin 
(George Chesterton writes). 

Liverpool brought in 
Abdoola, who stands 6ft 4in, as 
a last-minute replacement for 
McDonald, who had influenza, 
and he scored twice in the first 
half against Redbridge, who 
pulled a goal back by halftime. 
Fifteen minutes after the inter¬ 
val, Fowler, who has 21 goals to 
his credit this season, headed in 


neatly from a free kick. 

Sheffield went one down in 
the first few minutes agai n st 
West Suffolk, after a flurry of 
corners, but had the match in 
safe keeping by the interval. 
Hardwick scored twice, on each 
occasion converting a cross 
from the left, and Worsfold got 
the third. 

Sunderland or Waltham Flatt¬ 
est will play either Southampton 
or Hun in the other semi-final. 

Alleyn's and MmfieM both 
came from behind to win ESFA 


TENNIS 


Loosemore looks good 


Barclay's under-19 competition 
games. Alleyn's, entertaining 
Erith, found themselves two 
down at halftime, but forced 
extra time at 3-3 and eventually 
ran out winners by 5-4. 

Exeter College took the lead 
after 20 minutes of their replay 
against Millfield but were forced 
into extra time and then a 
penalty shoot-out, when Bed¬ 
ford, of Millfield, twice saved 
brilliantly enabling his side to go 
through by 3-1- 


BASKETBALL 




Jackman’s recovery 


IMS Courtlands must have 
thought they had a chance of 
registering their first win in the 
SRA Superleague when the 
distractions of a fl app ing skirt 
left Cassie Jackman, of Colets. 
floundering to Ruth Strauss (a 
Special Correspondent writes). 

It was only at matchball down 
that the Norfolk girl stopped 
thinking of pulling her win 
together and gathered herself 
together instead. The errors 
ceased and the points accu¬ 
mulated to provide Colets with 


FOR THE RECORD 


a winning start. This was soon 
countered when Liz Irving came 
out on top against Michelle 
Martin. Alison Comings beat 
Samantha Langley in the decid¬ 
ing; matrii. 

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TENNIS 


FOOTBALL 


arah Loosemore was involved 
i a superbly entertaining match 
rith Anke Huber, aged 15, of 
Vest Germany, for the second 
ime in two weeks yesterday, but 
«t the encounter in the first 
jund of the Feroleaf Classic m 
Wellington, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2 (Barry 
Wood writes). 

The future of the game can be 
ntrusted to players such as 
tese. Their total commitment 
nd aggressive tactics were a 
leasurc to watch, and Huber's 
bility to pull herself out of 
ifficulty on severa l occ asions 
as particularly impressive. 

Loosemore, aged 18, had the 
pportunxty to win the first six 
imes, but Huber twice hel d off 
reak points, and recovered 
om 2-4 to take the opening set* 


Then, having won only eight 
points is the second set, and 
with Loosemore striking the ball 
ever more powerfully and con¬ 
fidently. the young German, 
coached by Boris Braskvar. the 
former mentor of Boris Becker 
and Steffi Graf, raised her game 
to another level. Her forehand 
was particularly d ama ging as, 
down i-2, she won 12 of the next 
14 points to regain the 
momentum. 

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Bailey goes through 


iris Bailey's winning farm 
minued in the second round 
the LTA $50,000 Mens 
l,ll,nger 


knocked out the No. 1 seed. 
Lars Wahlgren, of Sweden, in 
the first round. 

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SQUASH RACKETS 


GOLF 

Boys selected 
to train with 
England men 

Boy golfers Ian Garbutt and . 
Carl Wans are in the England 
senior training squad, and must 
now be contenders for places in ' 
the first international against 
France at Morfontaine, near 
Paris, on May 12 and 13. 

Garbutt. aged 17, the England 
boys champion, will be in a 
party of 10 being coached by 
John Stirling at Vakterrama. 
Spain, from March 27 to April 3. 

Watts, aged IS. the British 
boys champion, is in another 
party of 10 at the same venue 
from April 3 to 10, when Keith 
Williams will be in charge. 

Two Walker Cup players, 

Peter McEvoy and Bobby Eggo, 
have declined the invitations to 
Spain because of other 
commitments. 

SQUADS; March 27 toaprflacJBIclaitn 
(Drotaitchj.C C»sw ia(Munaq.lQaitiott 
ptasttsn. J Mstodto (Area Hafl). T 


w * 

YACHTING 



Mizzenmast lost 
in a cruel deal 
for The Card 


, V. ; . 


By Barry PSdkthall 

As the Whitbread Round the 
World Race yachts attempted to 
pick their way south-east to¬ 
wards the strong westerly winds 
of the Roaring Forties yes¬ 
terday. they enc ou ntered calm* 
east of New Zealand which led 
to some dramatic place chang- 


Leading positions 

CompKodut r*t7 OUT waatBRtmr. wOi 
m«MfD FtaadWErtr 


championship table and are 
desperate for trophy success 
after several years in the cup 
wilderness. They are dose on 
the heels of Wigan, the leaders, 
with two in hand, and if 

Young settles in quickly at 
Headingley his powerful 
sc r um maging and loose play 
conld play a vital part in the 
championship and premiership. 
• The first match under the new 
floodlights at Doncaster will be 
the Great Britain ▼ France 
U oder-21 international return 
match on Friday week. A Great 
Britain training squad of 17 has 
been ann onn eed , from which a 
final selection will be made on 
Tuesday. 

SQUAD; Bachs: G Andonon (Castofcrd). 
G Coraoly (St Natans). P Datam, V 
Fawcett (both Leeds). R Gotrana 
(WfigsnX S Mb (CastWdrd. rapt). P 
Nw Ib w (FaMhn ra mna RovoreL T Suta- 
van (Hufl Kingston Rowre), R Turner 
(WarrantonV Forwards: D Batts, p 
Ctmfca. I tMdart (aS Wigan). S Moflay 
(Warrington), 8 Mca {Wakefield Trinity), 
N Roebuck. G Southernwood (both 
CastMord), P Sumner (Wwrington). 

ICE SKATING 

Murdoch 
preferred 
to Conway 

By John Hennessy 
Joanne Conway — the British 
figure skating champion until 
she was deposed by Emma 
Murdoch last November — has 
lost her chance of competing in 
next month’s world champion¬ 
ships in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Conway was to have taken 
part in a screening with Mur¬ 
doch and Andrea Law, who took 
the injured Conway^s place in 
the European championships in 
Leningrad last week, but the 
National Skating Association 
(NSA) has now confirmed Mur¬ 
doch’s selection for Halifax. 

Sally Stapieford, chairman of 
the NSA's figure co mmi tt e e, 
said; "Emma put in a good 
performance to come fifteenth 
in Leningrad on her first outing 
at this level, while Joanne is still 
suffering from injuries and is, I 
understand, due to have a leg 
operation in the next few 
weeks.” Law was 23rd in 
Leningrad. 

The NSA has dropped Cheryl 
Peake and Andrew Naylor, the 
British pairs champions. Their 
place has gone to Catherine 
Barker and Michael Akfred, 
who were second in the British 
championships and nin th (one 
place behind Peake and Naylor) 
in Leningrad. “The inter¬ 
national response to Catherine 
and Michael was encouraging 
and we want to foster their 
potential,” Stapieford said 
TEAM: S CotMbm (DeesHe). E Munloeti 
fSoBMU); Pahs; C Barker and M AMmd 
(Dumamt Im dance; L Du ria n and A 
Place (Stough). A HaB and J BtocmfMd 


Pierre FeOtmann's Swiss crew 
aboard Merit managed to ding 
on to fixst place but saw the 
French mwi, Charles Jottrdan, 
make a strong run north east of 
the leaders to climb from sev¬ 
enth to second at the expense of 
Grand Dalton's New Zealand 
ketch, Fisher & PUykeL 
The Caxd, Roger NHson's 
Swedish entry which lost its 
mizzenmast in a collision soon 
after the start last Sunday, also 
suffered a dramatic change in 
fortune, slipping six places to 
stand twelfth, 47 miles 
the leader. 

Peter Blake, the skipper of the 
third-placed New Zealand 
yacht, Stc inla ger 2, reported 
yesterday; “It's been a frustrat¬ 
ing time and no one has made 
many miles oveznighL One 
moment there is not a breath of 
air, and at other tunes there is a 
light breeze from the wrong 
direction. The wind is very 
local. When the new breeze 
arrived yesterday, Fisher & 
Paykel got it first, then Merit 
and us, but Rothmans [back in 
fifth place last night] didn't get it 
at all.” 

Grant Dalton also reported 
the wind “swinging in all direc¬ 
tions in stark contrast to the 
strong-running conditions we 
experienced during our second 
night at sea”. 

In contrast to the widely 
spread maxi fl ee *, the smaller 
entries remain closely bunched, 
with just 25 mites dividing the 
Dutch division two yacht. Eq¬ 
uity & Law, from West Germa¬ 
ny's Schlussel von Bremen, 
bringing up the rear in division 
three. 

Tracey Edwards, skipper of 
Britain’s Maiden, which moved 
up to ultft third place in the 
division 3 fleet yesterday, also 
reported fitful conditions. 
“We're cniisuig along pretty 



slowly, within sight of Schlussel 
and L’Espriide tibeni. Weave 
now fared with the tactical 
derision of going east or south to 
break dear of the stationary 
high sitting right on top of us. 
We've decided to go south and 
are looking forward to meeting 
stronger winds later this week,” 
she said yesterday. 

In England, Admiral Sir 
Jeremy Black. Commander of 
the Royal Naval Sailing Associ¬ 
ation. the race organizers, has 
confirmed that rear Admiral 
Charles Williams, the present 
race chairman, will not be 
leading the organization of the 
next race in 1993. 

In a statement issued yes¬ 
terday. Admiral Black said: 
“The RNSA win be selecting a 
successor who will be able to 
make full use of the associ¬ 
ation’s extensive international 
and service contacts and experi¬ 
ence built up during die 20 years 
that the RNSA has nu this race. 
Other c h a n ge s will also be made 
but the exact form of the race 
and the composition of the race 
committee will be decided after 
thorough consultation with 
owners, skippers and sponsors, 
some of whom wifi be invited to 
re p resent them on the com¬ 
mittee.” 


SNOOKER 


Hearn upset over 
Taylor’s claims 


By Steve Acteson 


Barry Hearn’s all-embracing de¬ 
mand for loyalty from the 
members of his Matc hro om 
sporting conglomerate, which 
embraces both snooker and 
boxing, may precipitate the 
expulsion of the former world 
champion, Dennis Taylor, when 
his contract comes up for re¬ 
newal in ApriL 

Hearn was privately outraged 
by the I ri sh m an’s public criti¬ 
cism of him on Sunday. Having 
lost 5-4 to his Matchroom 
colleague, Willie Thorne, in the 
Benson and Hedges Masters 
Cist round at Wembley, Taylor 
carped over an itinerary that 
had involved him in an 800- 
mile journey to Wembley, tak¬ 
ing in matches in Coventry and 
Gateshead en route, last week¬ 
end. He sugg es t e d that if Hearn 
“paid more attention to snooker 
these days”. It wouldn't have 
happened. 

Taylor also said he was “dis¬ 
gusted” with Hearn, and 
thought the itinerary “ridicu¬ 
lous". But yesterday, Hearn, 
after speaking to Taylor by 
telephone, pointed out that 
Taylor was chauflered through¬ 
out the trip in the Matchroom’s 
21-foot Lincoln Continental 
limousine, and said: “I don't 


consider this to be an arduous 
schedule, and I have told him 
so. In co m p ari son to Steve 
Davis and Stephen Hendry, 
Dennis has had a far less 
demanding itinerary.” 

The pair will meet next week 
to discuss the matter further but, 
unless Taylor is prepared to 
climb down, Hearn is unlikely 
to continue managing him after 
the player's contract expires. 

Taylor was anything but 
repentant yesterday, saying: 
“l*m sticking to my guns and by 
what I said at the press con¬ 
ference. I'm not going to change 
that, and I still think it was a 
stupid itinerary. Barry is the 
only person I’ve spoken to who 
thinks it was fair.” 

All of this overshadowed a 
gutsy performance by Tony 
Knowles, whose career is some¬ 
what in decline and who, yes¬ 
terday, let slip a 3-0 lead before 
finally overcoming the former 
world champion, Terry Grif¬ 
fiths, 5-4 to reach the last eight 
of the Masters. 



SNOW REPORTS 


Depth Runs Weather 

(cm) CoreStions to +temp 
L 0 Piste Off/P resort (5pm) °C 

AUSTRIA 

lots 0 5 worn dosed dosed sun 10 

Arams: mdeyand patches forming, most runs 
sJdahte. Stubd Is stiff the best 

Kitzbuhd 5 35 worn dosed dosed fine 4 

Pass Thum and Jochbetg atiK tatty good skSng but 
fowor nursery runs dosed. 

Mayrftofen 0 30 worn varied dosed sun 10 

High temperaturm bringing shshy, worn pistes. 

Hmtartux snow good but long queues. 

ScMadming 2 20 for crust ait fine 1 

Pfstoa worsening with high temps and sun. Queues. 

FRANCE 

Chamonix 75 120 fair varied dosed fate 7 

Good sunny skBng. No queues. 

FWho 15 95 good heavy icy Ana 3 

SkAig on upper slopes stff very good though rocks 

starmg to snow through- No queues. 

teola 50 80 good varied fair fine -1 

AB north-facing slopes have good skiing. 

LaPlagne 5 45 icy varied icy fine 6 

Very me good sting. AM runs now Icy and rocky. 

Megdve 5 40 good crust dosed tine 4 

Best aldnabt superb sunmne on CotB2000. Lower 
slopes hard packed with ky patches. Many mogul Gekts. 

Vald’isere 40 85 good crest good fine -3 

Good sk&tg everywhere. Lower slopes aba rocky. 

ITALY 

Courmayeur 35 70 good fair fair fine 2 

New snow sWprovkSng good skSng. Soma racks an 
tower stapes. Oil piste avalanche prone. 

SWITZERLAND 

Arosa 25 35 worn varied icy fine 3 


5 45 icy 


Davos 5 70 Mr varied dosed fine 5 3/2 

ParsannstiB best siding though warm tamps causing 
gradual deterioration. 

Grindelwakf 0 10 fair varied dosed fine 3 2J2 

SkBng Brntted to higher runs only. Possible to ski 


to MaendBchen mid station but some bare patches. 

Mfirren 0 5 fair fair dosed fine 8 3/2 



side (SchBthom and Berg). 

Seas Fee 15 110 good varied poor fine 2 3/2 

Very good glacier s kBng . Lower dopes stony and toy. 

In the above reports. suppMed by repre se nt ativ es of the SM Ciub of Great 
Britain, L refers to lower slopes and LI to upper, and mt to artificial. 


SCOTLAND 

Cdngfimi mww tavot, 2 £ 00 ft; vwtfca) 
ium. 12 DWL Ruwe upper, at annotate. 
name *« enow; mUato. some cambists; 
lower, patches; aeons roads dosed 
flooded, area cfomd. duktfts and two 
ctoaad adMHenaL O ta neh e r snem VwtL 
2j(Wt; vertical rone, 800tL fame upper, 
narrow and broken: lower, no maw. 
cMMHts md tows dend. LeeM: snow 
level, nfe no runs; Aanecli Mon snow 
ted, i^one mtied nns, i ,took Ruk 
mnscomptatB. wkto cover. ‘—" 


at around &000ft wttt showers (ahng as 
staat or snow ebovet 2A00IL Ran wH 
spread In eram the southwest though not 
d tats in the day. Winds wH be wi to 
moderate southw es te rl y, though n the 
evening It could pick up along wttft more 
rain, outsort: Bright wtth occasiona l 
ahew rer a. but with thicker ctaud and more 
persistent rata spreadtag in from the west 
ta Into tine U on suppled by the Scottish 
Meteorological OftceT 


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44 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 71990 


THE 



Holland will battle to cleanse his sport 


ByJdmGoodbody 


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Wally Holland, the honorary sec¬ 
retary of the British Amateur 
Weightlifters Association 


forced to resign because of the 
drugs controversy snmmndidg the 
sport, bnt says he wants to remain 
in office to help conquer the 
menace. 




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Man in the hot seat: Wally Holland, the leader of a sport in crisis 


Holland, whose sport is facing a! 
least five inquiries following the 
scandal over Steve Present, the 
1982 Commonwealth champion, 
who was jailed in November for 
supplying anabolic steroids, and 
the rash of positive tests before and 
during the Games in New Zealand, 
is willing to accept some of the 
responsibility. 

He said: “I will not shirt: that 
responsibility. At the end of the day 
if someone is guilty I may have to 
be the one, although I had nothing 

to do with it 

“Just as Mis Thatcher, as head of 
the Government has to accept 
some of the responsibility even if 
the actual blame lies miles down 
the line, so it is with me.** 

In the only interview he wfl] give 
until the results of tbe inquiries are 
known, Holland told The Times 
that he was prepared to sacrifice 
himself but did not want to go 
while the drugs problem remained. 
**I would rather face my 


Sofia (Renter) — Borislav Gidikov, 
the fanner world middleweight 
weightlifting champion, been 
bamed by Bulgarian sports 
authorities for 18 norths after 
a drugs test, a Bulgarian 
newspaper said on Tuesday. Tbe 
yoath daily, Narodaa Mtadezk, 
said Gidikov was tested at a 
training session and found to have 
taken anabolic steroids- He won his 
title in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 
1987. 


contributed to the death of Tom 
Hawk, the British under-23 record- 
holder, who collapsed in a strong¬ 
man competition in Sco tland last 
July. When police searched his 
hotel room, they found hormone 
drugs. 

“What these people do not 
realize is the publicity and shame 


found positive in Seoul came from 


Holland said: “Many sports are 
decrying weightlifting even though 
not many sports can ^ 
are free of drugs. There has been 
the suggestion to use the yaraJiCK 
of drugs to remove weightlifting 
from the Games. If this is society s 
attitude then every sport win a 


of being caught and what happens attitude then every spo 
to their jobs and family," Holland drug problem should be removed. 


Keeping 
a sport 
in pole 
position 






responsibilities instead of leaving 
them to some other poor devil to 
deal with,” he said. 

Holland, who was the En gland 
team manager at the Games, said 
he was “totally surprised” by the 
positive tests on three British lifters 
over the fast three months. They 
involved Dean Willey, tbe defend¬ 
ing Commonwealth middleweight 
champion, and the two Welshmen 
'in A uck la n d, Ricky Gtwpfin amt 
Gareth Hives. 


He points out that there only 
three lifters who failed test s in the 
years between 1983 and 1989. 

However, power lifting, which is 
also controlled by tbe BAWLA, has 
had a great number of “positives” 
in recent years, including seven 
since last ApriL 

There is a growing belief that 
anabolic steroids may have 


From his tiny office in Oxford, in 
which there is not enough room to 
lift a barbell, Holland, an amateur 
official, has repeatedly warned his 
17,500 members of the dangers of 
taking drugs. 

In his 36 yejtrs as secretary of tbe 
BA WLA, the last three months 
have been the most ‘’traumatic” for 
Holland, who is also president of 
tbe European Federation. The 
world governing body will consider 
in March whether Britain should 
tfe barred from all events fora year 
after the two positive tests in New 
Zealand, 


The wording of a new regulation, 
with the possibility of a $2,000 fine, 
is so ambiguous that it is unclear 
whether the International Federa¬ 
tion is obliged to act. 

The position of weightlifting in 
multi-sports events like the Olym¬ 
pic Games is under threat Five out 
of tbe 10 competitors who were 


After all, there have been more 

than I 20 casesofdreg irregularities 

in athletics since 1975, but no one 
has suggested removing this sport 
from the next Olympic or 
Commonwealth Games. 

Even before the “positives" in 
Auckland, die BA WLA, the only 
national governing body which 
automatically banned someone for 
life after a positive test for hor¬ 
mone drugs, had agreed with the 
Sports Council a programme of 
out-of-competition, tesing with 
sampling officers liable to arrive 
unannounced at a competitor’s 
home or gymnasium. 

Holland is optimistic that this 
will help eliminate drug-taking 
from a sport which is such a 
splendidly basic lest of physical 
ability. 

He said: “It is our duty as sports 
lovers and administrators to pro¬ 
tect the future generations from the 
dangers of drug-taking.” 


Consortium holds 


majority shares 
in Bradford City 


Seven weeks of speculation 
ended yesterday when a con¬ 
sortium of five men an¬ 
nounced that it had purchased 
more than 81 per cent of the 
shares in Bradford City Foot¬ 
ball Club. 

The new chairman is David 
Simpson, head of a local 


By Martin Searby 

we stay in the second division. 
People say it is better to be top 
of the third but that is 
nonsense. There mil be 
money available to strengthen 
the team if need be. 

“Apart from results, the 
dub is in first-class shape but 
no decision win be made 


were similar , they iinitari to 
complete the deaL 


Terry Fountain, the pre¬ 
vious vice-chairman, has also 
sold his small holding in the 
dub and resigned from tbe 
board of directors. 


By John Bltmsdeu _ . 

Jean-Marie Balestre, the 
autocratic president of the 
Federation Internationale 
Automobile (FLA) and its 

spotting arm, the Federation 
Internationale da Sport Auto¬ 
mobile (FISA), may be the 
most controversial admin¬ 
istrator in the toe* history of 
motor sport, but even his most 

bitter critics concede that no 
one has had a greater in¬ 
fluence over the comfort and 
mana g e m ent of tbe sport. 

The man who has recently 
been embroiled with McLana, 
Ayrton Senna and the or¬ 
ganizers of the Le Mans 24- 
hour race, has been part of the 
motor sport scene far many 
years. After a background in 
journalism, Balestre moved, 
into administration in tbe \ 
1950s, initially concerned with 
karting, bnt later becommg 
Secretary-General tbeo Presi¬ 
dent of tbe French motor sport 
federation, which which had 
wrested control of the sport hi 
France from its tradition] 
power base, the Automobile 
Club de France (ACF). 

He emerged as a highly 
skilled politician with a seem¬ 
ingly inexhaustible energy, 
ideal credentials for a on 
with his eye already on the 
presidency of the Commissjos 
Sportive Internationale (CS3V 
the FIA's sporting drrinou. 
During his election campafea 
he canvassed vigorously «b a 
platform of restoring the 
adminis tra tiv e power of tie 
sport to its rightful place, and 
won a sweeping victory. 1 
For many years the CSI ' 
administration had been m the 


leisure company, who was about any of the schemes on 
formerly the chairman of the drawing board nnti] we 


Keighley Rugby League Club 
and who has been a lifelong 
supporter of the second di¬ 
vision dub. 

He is joined by David 
Thompson, the vice-cbair- 
mdn, who was previously on 
the board as finance director, 
and David Taylor, Mark 
Woodhead and Paul 
Wilkowslri. a Manchester 
businessman. 


have had our first directors 
meeting. 


Simpson was previously 
employed as commercial 
manager at Valley Parade 
between 1970and 1974and he 
said: “When I realized the 


-Jhavebeeoasagpme.of ^ ^ be’SH 
the dub since my childhood tobecome involved in 


David 30 years ago and I*m ab- 
chair- solutely confident that 
»ly on Bradford City can be devd- 
ector, oped into one of the best 
Mark grounds and teams fa the 
Paul country.” 

Iiester Originally there were two 
consortia bidding for the 


my favourite dub.” 


No changes are immediate- shares of Jade Tordoffi tbe 
ly envisaged but Simpson former chairman, but when 

mv/I* M Tf in otiCAfirtihlv vital lltnt oWm* - <* - » 41.__ 


TardofFsold his 81 percent 
holding and said: “I have 
wanted to get out of football 
for sometime but face of 
circumstances kept me in the 
chair. 


said: “It is absolutely vital that they realized their objects 


Brown dismissed 
by Plymouth 


“Originally I only came in 
to bring my expertise of 
running a company but then 
we had the fire and I feft it 
important to stay on. 



form the 



Mcscow Cotxu:. 
dHtribediccimr 


Suing comfortably: WHtians (left) and Barrett, his manager, discuss yesterday the possible reasons for his defeat by C 

Williams waits for nositive Reefer 


Plymouth Argyle yesterday 
dismissed then-manager, Ken 
Brown, after a ran of 17 
matches with only ooe victory. 
John Gregory, dismissed as 
manager of Portsmouth last 
month, has been put in tem¬ 
porary charge of the dub, who 
are threatened with relegation 
from tbe second division. 

Peter Bloom, the chairman, 
said: “We bad an emergency 
board meeting last night and 
decided to dismiss Ken Brown 
this morning following the 
team’s poor performances over 
a period of time. It was an 
amicable parting.** 

Plymouth have sot won at 
home since October, and 
Brown, aged 55, has come 
under increasing pressure 
from his directors because of 
his reluctance to bay players to 
halt tbe slide. 


The board revealed last 
month that he had £500,000to 
spend, but Brown’s only trans¬ 
fer activity was to bring Greg¬ 
ory to Home Park on a two- 
month playing contract. 
Gregory had been player- 
manager at Portsmouth. 

Brown, who had 18 months 
left on his contract, joined 
Plymouth in June 1988 after 
the departure of Dave Smith. 
The former West Ham and 
En gland defender was also 
dismissed from his previous 
managerial job at Nonrich. 

Brown said: “We have 
parted on amicable terms. 
Because of tbe results, the 
directors had to make a de¬ 
cision and I’ve caught the 
brunt of it. From what the 
players have said to me, they 
felt they had let me down.” 


“Then Stafford Hegin- 
botham wanted to sell his 
share and I’ve bought it to 
stop it falling into other hands. 
Pro going to enjoy my leisure 
time as I shall still be a 
supporter of the dob.” 


Williams waits for positive 
outcome to his drugs test 


Tordoff has been made an 
honourary life president of the 
West Yorkshire side. Under 
Tordoff, Bradford came 
within two points of the first 
division in 1988 but what 
some described as an over¬ 
cautious approach by the 
chairman, who refused the 
money required to sign a key 
player (as promoted Middles¬ 
brough did with Trevor Se¬ 
nior), damaged their hopes 
and led to a rift with Terry 
Dolan, tbe manager, who was 
later dismissed. 


Is there room 
for improvement 
in your 
presentation 
rooms? 


The development of the 
Midland Road side of the 
ground at a cost of approxi¬ 
mately £2 million and possible 
ground-sharing with Bradford 
Northern Rugby league team 
are two items which will be 
discussed in the near future 
but present preoccupations 
are with the parlous state of 
tbe team, which has yet to win 
a League match away from 
home, has only two sides 
below it in the second division 
and is a candidate for 
relegation. 


For tbe first time in the history 
of drugs in sport, a British 
athlete is hoping that a drug 
test on him will prove 
positive. 

Derek Williams, the Batter¬ 
sea heavyweight, who lost his 
European title to Jean Mau¬ 
rice Chanet, of France, last 
Saturday at Saint-Dizier, is 
praying that the report from 
the French boxing federation 
will throw some light on why 
be was outpointed in a bout he 
should have won in a round. 

“I was hallucinating and. 
afterwards. I thought 1 was 
going to die. I still don’t feel 
right today." Williams said 
yesterday. “Tbe most im¬ 
portant thing is to do a 
Sherlock Holmes investiga¬ 
tion job to discover what 
•happened." 

Williams, who said he had 
never felt fitter before a con¬ 
test, collapsed immediately 
afterwards, and was taken to 


By Sriknmar Sen, Boxing Correspondent 

lory “He wouldn’t take drugs if Barrett said. “But I’ve an open 
itish you gave him £1 million,” mind. I'm no medical expert 
irug Barrett said. “But this is one and I'm not accusing Chanel’s 
rave dope test I hope will prove people of anything.” 

positive so we can find out Perhaps the answer lies in a 
Her- what exactly happened.” bug hitting Williams's stom- 


aims for 
the top 


The British Boxing Board of ach before Chanet could catch 
Control has asked the French him on his chin. Williams had 


federation for the results of the eaten a meal of chicken and 
test. The reports from the spaghetti six hours before his 


Mark Reefer, the Common- ELlT «VZZSfLZl 
wealth super-featherweight 

boxing champion, could earn Sj 

a world title chance later this JESTS! S? 

year if he wins the European E?!?? 

title from Daniel Londas, of JSjS 

France, at Rn>ntw<wi «so«eq by the creation or tte 


Balestre: boundless energy 

hands of amateurs. In For¬ 
mula One, especially, effective 
power had passed into the 
hands of the Formula One 
Constructors’ Association 
(FOCA), which had been 
formed under the shrewd and 
aUe presidency of Borne 
Ecclestone. 

Once installed in to the 
presidency of the CSI, which 
be quickly renamed FISA the 
better to reflect its importance, 
Balestre was soon in bitter 
conflict with his new ad¬ 
versary. The outside world raw 
the FLSA-FOCA war as oae 
between the new tnvim teams 
(supported by Balestre), and 
the noo-Oirbo majority, tat 
actually it was about whom 



© As extremes 


France, at Brentwood next 
Wednesday. 


French boxing authorities and 
hospital are expected today. 


Williams sai± “Before the after. 


bout, and was suffering from a 
severe stomach upset the day 


fight, 1 thought I would finish Barrett is claiming a re- 


it within a minute. Chanet match on the grounds that the 
shouldn't have been in the bout had no European Boxing 


same ring as me: 1 wouldn’t 
use him for sparring." 


Union supervisor, and 
Chanel’s corner was allowed 


Kamel Boul Ali, of Tunisia, 
the World Boxing Organiza¬ 
tion champion, is the man 
being lined up for Reefer, with, 
Barry Hearn, the promoter, 
hoping to stage the contest in 
Britain in October. 


But after the first round, in to use “New Skin” on a cut. If 
which he almost stopped the thiscould be proved, Williams 


35-year-old Frenchman, Wil- would have a strong case, and 
hams complained that Chanet the boxing board would have 


looked like a man miles away, to press far a rematch. 


“As I walked to come back to 
my comer. I seemed to be 


• Johnny Nelson, the Shef¬ 
field cruiserweight, who was 


walking forever. 1 don't know was criticized for his defensive 
how 1 jgoi through the 12 performance against Carlos 


complaining _ of bout 118-112 (8-2). 118-114 Council champion. 10 days 


hospital complaining of 
paralysis from the thighs 
down. According to Mike 
Barrett, Williams's manager, 
tbe ringside doctor thought 
Williams looked like a 
drugged man. 


rounds.” Williams lost the DeLeon, the World Boxing 

no vn /o no i v i c _• a a 


In the meantime. Reefer has 
a busy schedule ahead and has 
been pencilled in for a 
Commonwealth title defence 
in Norwich on March 20, and 
a British title bout against | 
either John Docheny or Joey ! 
Jacobs, who met for the | 
domestic crown last night in i 
Oldham, in the summer. 


lb-2) and 119-116(4-1). 


ago. makes his next appear- 


Barrelt suggested that the ancc on February 14 at Brent- 
blue dye from Chanet's gloves wood. He will be meeting 


might have affected Williams. 
“Maybe it somehow had an 


effect when it came off." States. 


Dino Homesy, an 
weight, from the 


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Hearn said: “Mark is going 
to knock out Londas, then 
we’ll make sure we get that 
little Tunisian over here. 


Mark will knock him out as 
well.” 


Concorde Agreement, which 
effectively restored adorn- 
istrative control to FISA, taut 
gave FOCA the major stake tu 
the lucrative television rights. 

Both sides claimed a victory 
on that occasion, but there Is 
no doubt that Balestre has 
subsequently scored regularly 
since. Using safety as tbe 
justification, he forced through 
the ban on underbody skirts 
against concerted opposition 
from teams which had invested 
so heavily in (beta. 

Perhaps most significantly 
of all, he has steered through » 
drastic reconstruction of the 
rule book, inserting into it tbe 
justification for bis inflexible 
attitude towards drivers, 
teams and race ovganizars who 
have opposed him recently. 
For example, few realized tbe 
importance of tbe 
forbidding any criticism of 
FISA natil it was used so 


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East Berlin (Reuter)—An East 
German Olympic official said 
a combined East and West 
German Olympic team would 
be possible only if political 
developments allowed it. 

“As long as there are two 
German states, there will be 
two National Olympic 
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Nick Gillingham has an early 
opportunity to put his dis¬ 
appointing Commonwealth 
Games behind him when he 
competes in the Swimming 
World Cup meet in Bonn 


National weights tempt 3SE 
Desert Orchid stable power in intM* 


By Michael Seely 


vigorously against them. 

Balestre has gone a long 
way down his chosen read of 
re-establishing Che FI A* 
through FISA, ns the supreme 
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spokesman, said yesterday. 

New backing 


Kingdom: top award 

Carrying on 


Singapore (AFP) — Twenty 
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the qualifying round of the 
Dunhill Cup golf champion¬ 
ships here tomon-ow for the 
right to play in the finals tn 
Scotland in October. 


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Kent County Cricket Club are 
to receive sponsorship in the 
region of £150,000 from Blue 
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three years, k was announced 


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yesterday. 

Taking stock 


Barcelona (Reuter) — The 
Spanish tennis federation yes¬ 
terday rejected an offer of 
resignation from Manuel 
Orantes. their Davis Cup team 
coach, following Spain's 5-2 
first-round defeat by Austria 
at the weekend. 


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British Rail is struggling to 
find extra coaches to run a 
special train to Tyneside for 
Gloucester's Pifldngton Cup 
rugby union match with 
Gosforth on Saturday. 


Safety first 


Work has begun on resurfac¬ 
ing the Mallory Park, motor 
racing circuit in Leicestershire 
as pan of a £100.000 package 
of improvements. 


New York (API - Roger 
Kingdom, the double Olympic 
champion who set a world 
record in the men's 110-metre; 
high hurdles last year, was 
yesterday awarded the 1990 
Jesse Owens International 
Trophy Award. i 


The publication of the Grand 
National weights yesterday 
fuelled the debate concerning 
Desert Orchid’s participation 
in the Seagram Grand Nat¬ 
ional on April 7. His trainer. 
David Elswonh. described the 
list 2lb allotted to the horse 
as “a racing weight”. He 
added: “As far as I’m con¬ 
cerned. hopes arc still alive 
that Desert Orchid will run in 
the National.” 

However, the part-owner. 
Richard Burridge. remains 
unconvinced. “Desert Orchid 
runs at Ascot tomorrow and I 
shall speak to David Elswonh 
and the other owners then. At 
the moment, though.! feel it is 
highly unlikely that the horse 
will run at Ainircc.” 

Christopher Mordaunt, the 
Jockey Club handicapper, has 
certainly dangled a templing 
carrot in front of the connec¬ 
tions of the nation's most 
popular race horse. Last year’s 
Cheltenham Gold Cup winner T 
is far more leniently treated I 


than he would be in a race 
over park or normal fences 

Mordaunt said: “Desert Or¬ 
chid will be meeting every 
horse in the race on at least 41b 
better terms than he would in 
a normal handicap. This was 
the case with Burrough Hill 
Lad. It is all a question of 
balance. There is one basic 
reason. 1 had to look at the 
« a whole and then 
decide if a horse has sufficient 

^irf f rw bc more than 
IU0. Desert Orchid falls fa l0 

this category.” 

R, val trainers, however 
were rar from pleased. Nickv 
Henderson, the handler of ifae 
strongly fancied second ! 
favourite. Brown Windsor 
said, commenting about the 
10.10 given to his horse 
“According to me. Desert 
Orchid should be on 12. II 
Where’s the missing 9lb?” 

More racing, pages 40 and 41 


sport. In doing so he has nude 
many enemies, yet remains as 
firady in control as ever, 
having been re-elected to foe . 
presidency for tbe third tkw- 

Why? Probably because he 
has worked energetically to 
ensure tbe support of afififotted 
delegates; and because even 
bis severest critics admire bis 
industry, if not Ills often, 
uncontrollable temper. 

Balestre is tough, as wefl *s 
clever, which is probably wftf 
Mrcbrfe Boeri of the AC de 
Monaco, previously one of his 
most outspoken adversaries, 
saw at re-election time bow 
necessary It was to the sport 
that Balestre retained, the 
presidency. 

These days he may spend . 
more tune than previously • 
wieWmg a chainsaw at his-'? 
holiday home in the hiBs 
behind tbe French Riviera; but 
»t wifi take someone a lot 
sharper than that implement 
to remove him from his seat of 
power, . _ 


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